vt ·see bream.
2. broom ·noun an implement for sweeping floors, ·etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle;
so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
3. broom ·noun a plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; ·esp., the cytisus scoparius of western europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.