broomed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of broom.

   The workers broomed the warehouse before the morning inspection.

   She had broomed the entire deck by noon.

   Note

   A regular -ed form that carries every sense of the verb with it. A floor can be broomed clean, a roofing membrane broomed flat against its adhesive, and an employee or partner broomed out of someone's life. Where broom stands in for bream, a ship's bottom is broomed. The same spelling also serves as the "carrying a broom" adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Carrying or using a broom.

   The broomed sweepers moved through the empty market square at dawn.

   A broomed attendant tidied the courtyard before the ceremony began.

   Note

   A word with a literary pedigree: Dylan Thomas uses it of a witch in "In Country Sleep" (1952), meaning a witch who has her broom. It usually comes before its noun and takes no degrees, since nothing is more broomed than something else. Keep it apart from the verb form. A broomed floor has been swept, but Thomas's witch simply has a broom.

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