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Besom Eg Crossword Clue

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noun

• a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle

• any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

• common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere

verb

• sweep with a broom or as if with a broom

• finish with a broom

42%7 Also known as a besom stick
noun

• The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.

40%13 Used for making besom brooms
noun

• Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes

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New York Times29 May 1983 Down 99
New York Times12 Jan 1980 Across 37
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