Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
broomstick .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A broomstick.
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- noun obsolete A
broomstick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Upon our first entering Sir ROGER winked to me, and pointed at something that stood behind the door, which, upon looking that way I found to be an old broomstaff.
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They fell on; I made good my place; at length they came to the broomstaff to me; I defied em still; when suddenly a file of boys behind em, loose shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honour in, and let em win the work.
Act V. Scene IV. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
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But shame it is that in our own civilised country the black cat and broomstaff should be considered as conductors to and from the regions of departed spirits.
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Upon our first entering Sir Roger winked to me, and pointed at something that stood behind the door, which, upon looking that way, I found to be an old broomstaff.
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How much more natural that our understanding should be carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered minds, than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a broomstaff, flesh and bones as we are, up the shaft of a chimney?
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How much more natural that our understanding should be carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered minds, than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a broomstaff, flesh and bones as we are, up the shaft of a chimney?
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reesetee commented on the word broomstaff
Broomstick.
April 4, 2008