Besom

1. A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.]

   I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.

   The housemaid with her besom.

imp. & p. p. Besomed

1. To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic]

   Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain.