besom

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft.

   “As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets.”

2. isim A troublesome woman.

   “"Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !"”

3. isim Any cleansing or purifying agent.

   “"The march of an army through a conquered country supposing it to be a highly civilized one, is a besom of destruction, whose havoc, moral and material, it would take at least a century to recover."”

4. fiil To sweep.