Besow vs Besom - What's the difference?
besow | besom |
To sow; sow all around or about; scatter; disperse; plant.
*1898 , International Association of Factory Inspectors, Annual convention of the International Association of Factory Inspectors :
(archaic, poetic) To sweep.
* 1954 , (Dylan Thomas), ''Under Milk Wood , page 13,
As verbs the difference between besow and besom
is that besow is to sow; sow all around or about; scatter; disperse; plant while besom is (archaic|poetic) to sweep.As a noun besom is
a broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft.besow
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Verb
(en verb)- [...] is to miss for him all the advantage our civilization is prepared to besow upon his childhood.
besom
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Derived terms
* besom pocketSee also
* (besom broom)Verb
(en verb)- Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Prichard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linolium, retired, and Mr Prichard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming , swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant...