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broomstick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broomstick \Broom"stick`\, n. A stick used as a handle of a broom.
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.
WordNet
n. the handle of a broom [syn: broom handle]
Wikipedia
Broomstick (1901–1931) was a Thoroughbred race horse born and bred at the famous McGrathiana Stud in Kentucky, but more importantly, he was one of the great sires of American racing. Out of another great sire, the Hall of Famer Ben Brush, Broomstick went on after his racing career to produce champion after champion for many years.
The important horseman, James R. Keene (who owned Domino, Kingston, Colin and Sysonby among so many other memorable horses), also owned Elf, Broomstick's dam. Believing she was barren, he sold her to Milton Young. One year later she foaled Broomstick. As a yearling Broomstick then went to a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania coal millionaire named Captain Samuel S. Brown who was a member of The Jockey Club and the owner of two racetracks.
Broomstick was small, but he won his first three stakes at two. Because of this, he was weighted down rather heavily for such a young horse and consequently won fewer races at that age. He placed in the Saratoga Special, the Walden Stakes, the Flatbush Stakes, the Great Trial Stakes and the Spring Stakes.
At three, and under another trainer, he won the Travers Stakes. In the Brighton Handicap he beat older horses and set a record that stood for nine years. In that race he was up against the truly game Irish Lad who broke down nearing the wire, but finished on three legs, only barely beaten.
Still heavily weighted, he placed in the Merchants and Citizens Handicap, the Hindoo Handicap, and his second Saratoga Special.
At four his only important effort was a place in the Century Handicap.
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.