Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. · An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. · Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil. · Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink. Replaced English besom (from Old English besma (“broom, rod”)), which is now restricted in meaning to a particular kind of broom. (shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
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