Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of broom
- not comparableCarrying or using a broom.
From the broomed witch's spume you are shielded by fern And flower of country sleep and the greenwood keep.
1952, Dylan Thomas, “In Country Sleep”, in Collected Poems, 1934-1952, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, page 1621 more example
Gertie was circling us joyously. Her glad free yelps brought the cousins rushing from their house, one lady furnished with a broom, the other with a duster. One dashed to the pansy-bed waving the duster protectively. ¶ The other broomed, militant, at the end of the delphinium row.
1944, Emily Carr, “Gertie”, in The House of All Sorts
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