A besom (/ˈbiːzəm/) is a broom, a household implement used for sweeping. The term is mostly reserved for a traditional broom constructed from a bundle of twigs tied to a stout pole. The twigs used could be broom (i.e. Genista, from which comes the modern name "broom" for the tool), heather or similar. The song "Buy Broom Buzzems" from Northern England refers to both types of twig. From the phrase broom besom the more common broom comes. In Scotland and Bulgaria, besoms are still occasionally to be found at the edge of forests where they are stacked for use in early response to an outbreak of fire.
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- ⭐ Core Definition: Besom
- Besom in the context of Cleaning tool
- Besom in the context of Rute (music)
- Besom in the context of Broom Buzzems
Besom in the context of Cleaning tool
Cleaning tools include the following:
- Acoustic cleaning
- Air blaster
- Air knife
- Besom
- Broom
- Brush
- Building maintenance unit
- Camel-hair brush
- Carbon dioxide cleaning
- Carpet beater
- Carpet sweeper
- Chamois leather
- Cleret
- Cyclone dust collector
- Dishwasher
- Dry-ice blasting
- Feather duster
- Floor scrubber
- Floorcloth
- Hataki
- Hot water extraction
- Ice blasting (cleaning)
- Laundroid
- Laundry ball
- Lint remover
- Melamine foam
- Microfibre cloth
- Mop
- Mop bucket cart
- NAV-CO2 system
- Needlegun scaler
- Parts washer
- Peg wood
- Peshtemal
- Pigging
- Pipe cleaner
- Pith wood
- Posser
- Pressure washing
- Propane burnisher
- Pumice
- Reason washing machine
- Scrubber (brush)
- Shaker broom vise
- Silent butler
- Soap shaker
- Sonic soot blowers
- Sponge (material)
- Squeegee
- Steam mop
- Strigil
- Swiffer
- Tawashi
- Thor washing machine
- Tongue cleaner
- Turk's head brush
- Vacuum cleaner
- Vacuum truck
- Vapor steam cleaner
- Wash rack
- Washing machine
- Wire brush
Besom in the context of Rute (music)
The rute (also spelled ruthe, from the German for 'rod' or 'switch'), also known as a multi-rod, is a beater for drums. Commercially made rutes are usually made of a bundle of thin birch dowels or thin canes attached to a drum stick handle. These often have a movable band to adjust how tightly the dowels are bound toward the tip. A rute may also be made of a bundle of twigs attached to a drum stick handle. These types of rutes are used for a variety of effects with various musical ensembles. A rute may also be a cylindrical bunch of pieces of cane or twigs, bound at one end, like a small besom without a handle. The rute is used to play on the head of the bass drum. Rute are also constructed from a solid rod thinly split partway down.
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"Buy Broom Buzzems" (or "Buy Broom Besums") is a song attributed by many to William Purvis, probably better known as "Blind Willie" (1752–1832), a Tyneside songwriter and performer in the end of the 18th and start of the 19th century, and is considered by many to be his piece de resistance.
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