[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To sweep with a broom.
1838. J. Grant, Sk. Lond., 43. If he escaped being scrubbed or ‘broomed’ to death.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, lviii. (D.). Work-people brooming away the fallen leaves.
1883. Miss Braddon, Gold. Calf, x. 119. A feeble old woman was feebly brooming the floor.
2. TO BREAM a ship. (? Only in Dicts.)
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ii. 13. Broming or Breaming. Breaming her, is but washing or burning of all the filth with reeds or broome.
1678. Phillips, Brooming or Broming a ship: see Breaming.
1707. Glossogr. Nova, The brooming of a ship meant in old time the burning of the filth from its side.
1708–21. in Kersey, Brooming or Breaming of a Ship.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
