besom

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BE'SOM, noun s as z. A broom; a brush of twigs for sweeping. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts. Isaiah 14:23. BE'SOM, verb transitive To sweep, as with a besom Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain.
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