BROOM

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English brōm; akin to Old High German brāmo bramble Date: before 12th century any of various leguminous shrubs (especially genera Cytisus and Genista ) with long slender branches, small leaves, and usually showy yellow flowers, a bundle of firm stiff twigs or fibers bound together on a long handle especially for sweeping, II. transitive verb Date: 1838 to sweep with or as if with a ~, to finish (as a concrete surface) by means of a ~