broomie

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person who wields a broom.

   • Two players are named broomies, and each is positioned at either end of the court. Each has two brooms.
2. 2

   A person who sweeps the floor and possibly does other menial tasks in a shearing shed.

   • In some big single-board sheds, where pickers-up and broomies have to dodge shearers who are continually crossing the board, plenty of space is necessary, and the board should not be less than 10 feet wide.
   • The ′broomie′, or board boy, should keep the wool pushed up to the lamb being shorn.
3. 3

   A broomtail (unbroken range mare).

   • In the lead of the broomies ran a beautiful cream buckskin, with black mane flying proudly!
   • 1972 August, Adrienne Richard, Sundance and the Princess, Boys' Life, page 22, A broomtail, we called it, and usually broomies had their tails “pulled,” trimmed up, when they were broken to saddle, but I didn't want Sundance′s tail cut.
   • One day after corralling a bunch of broomies in a pole corral, I roped a big blue-roan mare that wore a brand.

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