besom

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Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a flicker like green fire in his eyes, and his beard stood out stiff as a great besom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

This was the besom with which they had swept the holy house, the Caaba, and the Beth Alla.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Broom, brōōm, n. a name given to a number of species of shrubs of the closely allied genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium: a besom made of its twigs.—v.t. to sweep with a broom.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

“Weel,” he said, “I’m thinking yon besom may have had a hand in the thing.”

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold