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.
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.