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Be·som n. A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.]
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. --Isa. xiv. 23.
The housemaid with her besom. --W. Irving.
Be·som, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besomed ] To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic]
Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. --Barlow.
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besom
n : a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle
Besom
the rendering of a Hebrew word meaning sweeper, occurs only in
Isa. 14:23, of the sweeping away, the utter ruin, of Babylon.