A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.

Roget 652: cleanness, cleanliness etc. adj.; purity; cleaning etc. v.; purification, defecation etc. v.; purgation, lustration^†; detersion^†, abstersion^†; epuration^†, mundation^†; ablution, lavation^†, colature^†; disinfection etc. v.; drainage, sewerage.    lavatory, laundry, washhouse^†; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi^†, laundryman, washerman^†; scavenger, dustman^†, sweep; white wings brush [U.S.]; broom, besom^†, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.    napkin, cloth, maukin^†, malkin^†, handkerchief, towel, sudary^†; doyley^†, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.    cover, drugget^†.    wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier etc. v.; disinfectant; aperient^†; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin^†; bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent^†, laxative.    ... show more

Dutch: bezem
Polish: miotła

Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.

Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.

synonyms: Calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, Scots heather.

Dutch: heide, hei
Polish: wrzos pospolity, wrzos zwyczajny

Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom.

synonym: sweep.

Finish with a broom.