2. Verb. (third-person singular of besom) ¹
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Definition of Besoms
1. besom [n] - See also: besom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besoms
Literary usage of Besoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essay on curling, and artificial pond making by J. Cairnie (1833)
"besoms. EVERY good and keen Curler should have a neat and well-made broom, ...
The besoms in general use, are made of common broom, which will be improved ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"X. Let A be your carriage ; and let В stand for six hundred thousands of besoms,
which suppose to express the value of your carriage in that article at this ..."
3. George Fox's Journal by George Fox, Percy Livingstone Parker, William Robertson Nicoll (1903)
"... and another with him with bundles of birchen rods, bound together like besoms,
with which they would have whipped me: but I was moved to speak to them ..."
4. The Bards of Angus and the Mearns: An Anthology of the Counties by Alan Reid (1897)
"Why, said my Lord, tis very true, A bawbee for the besom then Ana twa Scots
pennies for the twa Be paid the farmer ; that is ten Broom besoms—and to end ..."
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