besom: curler's broom

Surely a besom has uses other than brushing the ice to guide heavy stones? Hansel and Gretel's family might have used one. Wouldn't any old collection of tied-up sticks on a pole qualify?

I disapprove of giving one instance as a "definition." (I know, Bill, you're not offering this as a list of definitions, just reproducing the Spelling Bee collection - it's their presentation I'm grumbling about.)