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Перевод: besom
[существительное] метла ; веник ; карга ; чертовка
Тезаурус:
- A besom is a particular kind of brush made from bundles of tough twigs such as heather stems tied together round a handle of, for instance, hazel.
- It was a valuable resource, and a very busy place, where you would find the like of charcoal burners and thatchers, basket-makers, besom squires, and chair bodgers.
- In the little town of Roding an elderly woman is sweeping the streets with a birch-twig besom.
- Bessy's besom served the practical purpose of clearing a space for the performance and reducing the dust, but also carried suggestions of sweeping good or ill-luck.
- Besom Bessy was another character from this.
- So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom - which her mummy said was properly called a besom, and which she had used as the witch's broom in the play.
- Sam put the besom to work and Evelyn tried once more to shift that awful basket.
- The "Lady Mayoress" is certainly no lady, but a young man dressed as a woman, complete with ample bosom; a soul-mate of Besom Bessy of Bellerby perhaps, another "she-male" figure.
- It was the head of a gigantic besom.
- You impertinent besom!
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