besom

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Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a flicker like green fire in his eyes, and his beard stood out stiff as a great besom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

We dwell in a region of the earth, seldom touched by this besom of destruction.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Broom, brōōm, n. a name given to a number of species of shrubs of the closely allied genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium: a besom made of its twigs.—v.t. to sweep with a broom.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Unhappily, when the dog-star is in the sky, there is but too much probability that the epidemic will sweep the place with the besom of destruction.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt