broomstick

Grab a broomstick, spray paint that gray, and attach it to the bouncy ball.
Miley Cyrus, Walter White, Oprah: Your Pop Culture Halloween Costume Guide|Kevin Fallon|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Other punishments would follow: the occasional whipping with an electric cord, a beating with a broomstick.
Handcuffs, Ropes, and an Open Window: How I Escaped an Unthinkable Childhood|Genyfer Spark|January 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off his broomstick and perish in a fierce firefight.
Salman Rushdie: Pakistan's Deadly Game|Salman Rushdie|May 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself, "Surely mortal man is a broomstick!"
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I|Francis W. Halsey

She took good care to keep the broomstick from about my head.
The Underground Railroad|William Still
It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch or a wand to a conjurer.
The Literary World Seventh Reader|Various
The broomstick is run through this hole after first placing two metal washers on it.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2|Various
True, a broomstick can be grasped between the thumb and index finger, and yet is not very graceful.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851|Various

British Dictionary definitions for broomstick

broomstick

/ (ˈbruːmˌstɪk, ˈbrʊm-) /

noun

the long handle of a broom

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broomstick

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