What is the meaning of Besme?

A broom (device for sweeping)

A bundle of sticks; a faggot.

bē̆sm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Cowling, G[eorge] H. (1915), “I. The Phonology of the Modern Dialect”, in The Dialect of Hackness (North-East Yorkshire) (Cambridge Archeological and Ethnological Series), Part I, Cambridge: at the University Press, →OCLC, § 32, page 7.

Hedevind, Bertil (1967), “5. NME Long Vowels”, in The Dialect of Dentdale in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia; 5), Uppsala: Appelbergs Boktryckeri AB, →OCLC, § 5:37, page 173.

Wright, Joseph (1892), “Chapter II. The Old English Equivalents of the Windhill Vowels in Accented Syllables.”, in A grammar of the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Dialect Society Series C; 67), London: for the English Dialect Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., →OCLC, § 39, page 17.

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