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▸ noun: (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
▸ noun: Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
▸ noun: especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium
▸ noun: of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
▸ noun: (slang, rare) A shotgun.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
▸ verb: (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
▸ verb: (figurative) to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
▸ noun: A number of places in England:
▸ noun: A village in Southill parish, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL1743).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Long Marton parish, Eden district, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6623).
▸ noun: A locality in Thorncombe parish, west Dorset, on the boundary with Devon and close to Somerset (OS grid ref ST3202).
▸ noun: A southern suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4491).
▸ noun: A village in Bidford-on-Avon parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP0853).
▸ noun: A suburb of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5556).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Kilgetty/Begelly community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1108).
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ verb: (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”) [(nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.]
Similar:
sweep,
heather,
ling,
calluna vulgaris,
scots heather,
pushbroom,
besom,
push broom,
broomstaff,
sweepage,
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