broom

[Untaught88]

Hi,

What do you call this: grass broom or only broom?

 

[GoesStation]

They look like hand brooms to me.

 

[emsr2d2]

A broom made of sticks (rather than grass) used to be called a besom but the word is hardly ever used these days. I'd just call that a broom.

 

[GoesStation]

In American English, the stuff brooms are usually made from is ​broomstraw.

 

[Skrej]

It's also known as broom corn. For a while during 1944, my county in southwest Kansas had a POW camp in which captive German WW II soldiers harvested wheat and broom corn. At the time, broom corn was widely grown. It has become a much less common as a commodity nowadays.

 

[probus]

It is the South Asian form of what we call a corn broom. It differs from our brooms in that it lacks a long wooden or plastic handle, so one has to bend over to use it.