Broomie

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

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.

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.