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# broom

noun (a broom, brooms); verb (broom — rare)

«broom» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A broom is a brush with a long handle for sweeping floors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#m1)
2. Broom is also a wild bush with small yellow flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life a broom is used to sweep the floor, the yard or leaves; children help with chores. In stories and at Halloween witches fly on broomsticks. In sport, curling players use brooms to sweep the ice. Phrase: «a new broom sweeps clean» means a new leader makes many changes.

### Examples

- Use the broom to sweep up the crumbs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x1)
- The witch flew across the moon on her broom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x2)
- Can you sweep the leaves with the big broom? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x3)
- Yellow broom flowers grew on the hillside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x4)
- The broom and dustpan are in the cupboard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x5)
- Curling players sweep the ice with brooms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x6)
- Ya-hip! ya-hip!' And he flourished his broom in triumph." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/#x7)

### Note

Countable: brooms. «Broomstick» is the handle of a broom, or the whole broom in witch stories. Not «bloom» (a flower), which sounds similar.

## In Jewish tradition

The "broom" is a desert shrub (the retem), not a sweeping brush. Its wood burns very hot, so "coals of broom" means fierce fire.

**Interpretation.** Tradition notes that the broom-tree gave Elijah shelter in his despair, and that the angel fed him there. Its hot coals are a picture of the sharp, burning power of slander in the Psalms.

### Examples

- Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom. (Writings PSA.120.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/broom/#x1)
- They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food. (Writings JOB.30.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/broom/#x2)
- And he lay down and slept under a broom-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him: 'Arise and eat.' (Prophets 1KI.19.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/broom/#x3)

### Note

Countable: brooms. «Broomstick» is the handle of a broom, or the whole broom in witch stories. Not «bloom» (a flower), which sounds similar.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «broom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broom/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«broom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/broom.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «broom» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/broom/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«broom» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/broom.html) on Mova free.