broom·stick

(bro͞om′stĭk′, bro͝om′-)

The handle of a broom.

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broomstick

(ˈbruːmˌstɪk; ˈbrʊm-)

(Tools) the long handle of a broom

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

broom•stick

(ˈbrumˌstɪk, ˈbrʊm-)

n.

the long slender handle of a broom.

[1675–85]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

broomstick - the handle of a broom

broom handle

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

handgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"

Translations

kosteskaft

Besenstiel

σκουπόξυλο

manico di scopa

bezemsteel

broomstick

[ˈbrʊmstɪk] N → palo m de escoba

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

broomstick

[ˈbruːmstɪk] n → manche m à balai

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

broomstick

[ˈbrʊmˌstɪk] n → manico di scopa

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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References in classic literature

A BROOMSTICK which had long served a witch as a steed complained of the nature of its employment, which it thought degrading.

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And Hannibal, snarling, growling, and spitting, ducking his head and with short paw-strokes trying to ward off the insistent broomstick, backed obediently into the corner, crumpled up his hind-parts, and tried to withdraw his corporeal body within itself in a pain-urged effort to make it smaller.

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Juozapas had only one leg, having been run over by a wagon when a little child, but he had got himself a broomstick, which he put under his arm for a crutch.

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Just as eleven of them had done blessing her, a great noise was heard in the courtyard, and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy was come, with a black cap on her head, and black shoes on her feet, and a broomstick in her hand: and presently up she came into the dining- hall.

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In vulgar phrase, she had taken up the broomstick, and was just about to sally from the kitchen, when Jones accosted her with a demand of a gown and other vestments, to cover the half-naked woman upstairs.

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It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch, or a wand to a conjurer.

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"She needs no old woman's broomstick to fly withal!"

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They both led tramping lives, and this woman in Gerrard-street here had been married very young, over the broomstick (as we say), to a tramping man, and was a perfect fury in point of jealousy.

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When his touring in Switzerland is finished, he does not throw that broomstick away, but lugs it home with him, to the far corners of the earth, although this costs him more trouble and bother than a baby or a courier could.

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But Bazin, still the servant of a musketeer, when once the blood mounted to his fat cheeks, seized a broomstick and began belaboring Blaisois, saying:

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But--would your worship believe it?--my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane"

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Muldoon's broomstick, in a corner, to tempt the burglar.

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