¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Broomsticks
1. broomstick [n] - See also: broomstick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broomsticks
Literary usage of Broomsticks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"THE FRIGHTENED MINORITY IV REFORMERS AND broomsticks A FEW years ago a number of
our protectors in the press were greatly alarmed by reports of brutal ..."
2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"(lo ! if your ancient, but i. blood EM iv. 211 Envy, to which th* i. mimi's a
slave KM ii. 191 The thriving plants, /. broomsticks made ME iv. 97 Ignobly. ..."
3. Content with Flies by Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater (1916)
"CHAPTER VII BIRDS AND broomsticks INCIDENTS of any kind, during these long, bright
days, were few and far between. We seemed rapidly becoming perfect ..."
4. River Legends, Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Gustave Doré, Daldy, Isbister & Co (1875)
"Dame Stokes lived at Datchet, whence- she generally sallied forth upon one of
the biggest broomsticks ever known in that part of the country; Mother Wandle ..."
5. Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena : with Explanatory by Carl Sextus (1893)
"... eating and become apparently sad and dejected ; and when IN ECSTACY BELIEVING
THEMSELVES FLYING THROUGH THE AIR ON broomsticks AND HAVING COMMUNICATIONS ..."
6. England Under Seven Administrations by Albany Fonblanque (1837)
"They did not tax broomsticks, though they knew full well that a broomstick was
... But there was no stamp-duty on broomsticks, though a fourpenny tax would ..."
Other Resources:
