noun
- A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.
- Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.
- Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.
- synonyms: heather, ling, Scots heather, Calluna vulgaris
verb
- Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom.
- usage: "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
- synonyms: sweep
- Finish with a broom. .
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