Most of these were in the Eastern United States during the Great Depression in the 1930s, the number of factories declined to 320 in 1939. One source mentions that the United States had 303 broom factories by 1839 and that the number peaked at 1,039 in 1919. This machine played an integral part in the Industrial Revolution. In 1810, the foot treadle broom machine was invented. Dickenson subsequently invented a machine that would make better brooms, and faster than he could. The sorghum brooms held up well, but ultimately, like all brooms, fell apart. His wife spread good words around town, creating demand for Dickenson's sorghum brooms. In 1797, the quality of brooms changed when Levi Dickenson, a farmer in Hadley, Massachusetts, made a broom for his wife, using the tassels of sorghum, a grain he was growing for the seeds. The broom is also a symbolic object associated with witchcraft and ceremonial magic. The majority of brooms are somewhere in between, suitable for sweeping the floors of homes and businesses, soft enough to be flexible and to move even light dust, but stiff enough to achieve a firm sweeping action. Soft brooms are used in some cultures chiefly for sweeping walls of cobwebs and spiders, like a " feather duster", while hard brooms are for rougher tasks like sweeping dirt off sidewalks or concrete floors, or even smoothing and texturing wet concrete. It is commonly used in combination with a dustpan.Ī distinction is made between a "hard broom" and a "soft broom" and a spectrum in between. It is thus a variety of brush with a long handle. Send us feedback about these examples.Sorghum-made brooms with long handles as well as short handlesĪ broom (also known as a broomstick) is a cleaning tool consisting of usually stiff fibers (often made of materials such as plastic, hair, or corn husks) attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'broomstick.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Sam Richardson owning a magic shop, and, most important, Kathy Najimy flying not a broomstick but what appears to be two Roombas. Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021 The first-place Denver Nuggets are about as frightening as an old broomstick. Dana Santas, CNN, Raped with a broomstick? - Emma Brown, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023 Keep the broomstick in line with your shoulders. 2022 These include Ken Moreno, who was charged with raping a drunk woman after helping her out of a taxi and one of the officers charged in raping Abner Louima with a broomstick. 2023 The threat appears to recall the horrific 1997 police assault on Abner Louima in Brooklyn, in which Louima was sodomized with a broken broomstick in the bathroom of the 70th precinct by Justin Volpe, the disgraced NYPD Officer now serving 30 years for the attack. Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, The actor's carousel post also included a pic of a fun broomstick fight Pedro had with a TLOU crew member. Recent Examples on the Web After the 2018 case surfaced, according to court records, the alleged victim of the 2017 incident told police and his attorneys that he in fact was attacked by teammates with a broomstick in the locker room.
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