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broom

noun as in device for cleaning floors

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The idea that blends are just “diluted malts” was born and has contributed to its lasting image problem, Broom says.

It is the “glue that holds often flaky single malts together,” as Broom puts it.

We sat in his dimly lit office—no bigger than a broom closet—where we commiserated over the current state of American medicine.

Silently, he moves to grab a kombo (a whisk broom instrument)—then, softly, he taps her shoulders and head.

The blood rushed to my head, but I only answered, “A new broom sweeps clean.”

At last a servant-girl came to the open door with a broom in her hand to survey the aspect of things in general.

And the boy waited with the new broom in his hand, expecting every moment to see the door opened from the outside.

A broken broom, covered with very ancient cobwebs, lay under one manger, and the remnants of a stable-bucket under another.

Suddenly Randulf's housekeeper fell upon them with a broom, and the boys scampered away, amidst shouts and laughter.

It is easy to see that such moving dams of ice may sweep the bed of a river as with a great broom.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to broom, such as: mop, besom, swab, sweeper, whisk, and carpet sweeper.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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