"broomie" meaning in English

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          "text": "Two players are named broomies, and each is positioned at either end of the court. Each has two brooms.",
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        "A person who wields a broom."
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        "(informal) A person who wields a broom."
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          "ref": "1990, John Bernard D′Arcy, Sheep Management and Wool Technology, page 103:",
          "text": "The ′broomie′, or board boy, should keep the wool pushed up to the lamb being shorn.",
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        "(informal, Australia) A person who sweeps the floor and possibly does other menial tasks in a shearing shed."
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          "text": "1972 August, Adrienne Richard, Sundance and the Princess, Boys' Life, page 22,\nA 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."
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          "ref": "1989, Stella Hughes, Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes, page 165:",
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        "A broomtail (unbroken range mare)."
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        },
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