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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈbiː.zəm/Part of speech nounSorted bemosStarts with BEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle

Word origin

From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”).

Used in a sentence

  • As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets.
  • At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
  • "Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !"

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