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Broom vs Whin - What's the difference?

broom | whin |

As nouns the difference between broom and whin

is that broom is a domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping while whin is gorse; furze.

As a verb broom

is to sweep.

As a proper noun Broom

is {{surname|lang=en}.

broom

English

(wikipedia broom)

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl) ‘edge’. Related to (l), (l).

Noun

  • (label) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
  • (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
  • Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the genera , with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
  • * 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 4 scene 1:
    • and thy broom groves,
    Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
    Being lass-lorn
    Derived terms
    * a new broom sweeps clean * broom wagon * broomstick * brooming * pushbroom / push broom / push-broom * whiskbroom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To sweep.
  • * 1855 September 29, , "Model Officials", in Household Words: A Weekly Journal , Bradbury and Evens (1856), page 206:
    • “[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]”
  • * , Our Street'', in ''Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch'', Chapman & Hall (1857), ''Our Street page 8:
    • It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen.
  • * Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart , Atlantic Monthly Press (1920), pages 58–59:
    • After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming'. I ' broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left.
  • * 1997 , Will Hobbs, Far North (HarperCollins, ISBN 0380725363), page 100:
    • We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.
    Quotations
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    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) (gloss, to clean a ship's bottom)

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    whin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gorse; furze.
  • * 1790 , '', 1828, Thomas Park (editor), ''Works of the British Poets , Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65,
    • By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins , and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), , 1995, Canongate Books, page 38,
    • And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
  • The plant woad-waxen.
    • (Gray)
  • Whinstone.

    • Derived terms

    * moor whin * petty whin * whin bruiser * whin sparrow * whin thrush (Webster 1913)