a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.]

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  1.  Covered with or abounding in broom.

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1649.  Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 132. All coarse barren Heaths, Lingy, Broomy Lands.

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1679.  Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 110. This heathy, broomy, gorsy, barren sort of Soile.

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1790.  Burns, Let. Mrs. Dunlop, Nov. The broomy banks of Nith.

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1852.  D. Moir, Glen of Roslin, iii. 169. Each broomy vale … bequeaths Some old heroic tale.

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  † 2.  Of or pertaining to a broom or besom. rare.

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1709.  Swift, Morning, in Tatler, No. 9, ¶ 1. The Youth with broomy Stumps began to trace The Kennel Edge.

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  3.  Broom-like. Cf. bushy. rare.

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1807.  Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 253. Its leading shoot appears … to have spread into a small broomy top.

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