broomstaff
English
Etymology
broom + staff
Noun
broomstaff (plural broomstaffs or broomstaves)
- (obsolete) A broomstick.
- 1612, Shakespeare, William, Henry VIII, Act 5 Scene 4, line 3224:
- They fell on; I made good my place; at length they came to the broom-staff with me, I defy'd 'em still […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for broomstaff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)