Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse broom made of the twigs and small branches of the birch-tree, used for sweeping stables, streets, etc.
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Examples
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But next morning they would get up at dawn, as usual, sweep out the rooms with a birch-broom, empty the slops, and clean up after lodgers.
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When the seed has been shaken from the plant, the tops are brought together, and form those excellent besoms which, throughout southern Europe, supply the place of birch-broom, than which they are more elastic, not so brittle, and much cleaner.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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So, shouldering my father's tools, I journeyed west until I came to her place, and found her trying to break in a new birch-broom that was still too green and full of sap to be easily mastered; and she was in a very bad temper.
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So, shouldering my father's tools, I journeyed west until I came to her place, and found her trying to break in a new birch-broom that was still too green and full of sap to be easily mastered; and she was in a very bad temper.
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So, shouldering my father's tools, I journeyed west until I came to her place, and found her trying to break in a new birch-broom that was still too green and full of sap to be easily mastered; and she was in a very bad temper.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923
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Was just considering the possibility of outflanking the birch-broom, which had taken up an advantageous position by the kitchen window, when
Salthaven 1903
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His irons were tied up with the daintiest blue bows, and in the breast of his coat he carried a bundle of flowers as large as a birch-broom.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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His irons were tied up with the daintiest blue bows, and in the breast of his coat he carried a bundle of flowers as large as a birch-broom.
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
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But once he comes down to live with us he's as rough and prickly as a birch-broom.
By Berwen Banks Allen Raine 1885
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On your nob, and a rumpling your 'air till it's like a birch-broom in a fit!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 Various 1876
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