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Flying off the handle in a witch's clutches
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broomstick
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An hour later, a broomstick settled gently on the lawn. ▪ He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp. ▪ It was probably this practice that gave rise to the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the handle of a broom [syn: broom handle ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the handle of a broom - a tool used to sweep the floor 2 ''(witchcraft)'' A broom, imbued with magic enabling one to fly riding the handle.
Usage examples of broomstick.
To the Black Sabbath on the Brocken she rode, high through the sky on a broomstick with her rags astream in the wind.
After ten minutes, Morwen was wishing she had brought her broomstick.
Finally, it was as narrow as a broomstick and Treen slid it back into its tube and stuck a cap on the end.
To his right he saw Jak holding Emma by one hand, a short-bladed throwing knife in the other, backing away in front of a stout ghoulie armed with a cleaver tied to a broomstick.
In vulgar phrase, she had taken up the broomstick, and was just about to sally from the kitchen, when Jones accosted her with a demand of a gown and other vestments, to cover the half-naked woman upstairs.
Without more ado, I got hold of a broomstick, and gave her a good lesson, in order to get something for the ten sequins which I had been foolish enough to pay in advance.
They long to visit the haunts of men, To see the old dwellings they knew again, And ride on their broomsticks all around Their wide domain of unhallowed ground.
A couple of hapless Cygnans came tumbling out of the lock, squirming round on their broomsticks to get back to the ship.
But if those puny-looking Cygnan broomsticks could manage constant acceleration at one g, then certainly they could mail a package from Earth in eight days.
And how many missiles do you think would get to their targets when they can match velocities freehand on those broomsticks of theirs?
Over the years they had all seen girls raped and ruined for life by baseball bats and broomsticks.
Remember my rhymes when you ride again On the rattling rail by the broomstick train!
Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broomsticks.
And perhaps the Shapeshifters have been flying up from Piurifayne on broomsticks or magical flying machines in the night, and scattering some baleful enchantment on the land.
Then with a casual flick of their broomsticks, the Cygnans altered course fractionally.