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a witch's getaway car, demoted to chasing dust under your couch.
means A long-handled brush with a head of stiff bristles or twigs, used for sweeping floors and clearing away dust and debris.
from From Old English 'brōm,' which named not the tool but the plant — a shrubby flowering bush (still called broom today) whose springy twigs were bundled together to make the earliest sweepers. The plant lent its name to the implement: you literally cleaned your floor with a fistful of broom. Related to Dutch 'brem' and German words for the same shrub. The all-purpose sweeping word before this was 'besom,' which broom eventually swept aside.
- name origin
- Named for the broom shrub once tied into bundles
- balance trick
- Stands upright unaided on most days, not just equinox
- sport status
- Olympic curlers sweep ice with engineered brooms
- flying lore
- Witch broomsticks first appeared in a 1451 trial
- besom craft
- Traditional round brooms are called besoms
nimbus 2000 — fictional racing broomstick from harry potter, first appeared in 1997
pagan wiccan besom — handmade broomstick used in witchcraft rituals, traditionally made from birch twigs and ash handles