boule vs broom

boule

noun
  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

broom

noun
  • A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. 

  • An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. 

  • Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves. 

  • A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front. 

verb
  • To sweep with a broom. 

  • to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life 

  • To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane. 

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