Besom
Besom ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English besme, besum, Anglo-Saxon besma; akin to Dutch bezem, OHG pesamo, German besen; of uncertain origin.]
A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Figurative]
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
The housemaid with her besom.
Besom ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic] — Cowper
Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain.