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besom

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besom
Curling a broom or brush used to sweep the ice in front of the stone to make it slide farther


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If ever my scorn hath scattered mouldered words to the winds, and if I have come like a besom to cross-spiders, and as a cleansing wind to old charnel- houses:
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
My father turned up his sleeves and clutched the besom.
Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
A scrawny buttermilk-faced young besom, allus askin' questions an' pokin' tha' nose where it wasna, wanted.
The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context
 
 
 
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