Broom sentence example

broom. verb. broomed; brooming; brooms. Definition of broom (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb.

broom noun (BRUSH) Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge.

As verbs the difference between broom and sweep is that broom is to sweep or broom can be (nautical) (to clean a ship’s bottom) while sweep is to clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.

English-U.S. “Brooming” is NEVER used in American English, at least not in my part of the country.

1. Do you have a broom or dust mop?
2. Broom , Rep.
3. She left the bedroom for a broom and explored the house completely, unable to find the cleaning closet.
4. She opened her eyes and gasped as Alex took the broom away and pulled her into the middle of the room.

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. The broom is also a symbolic object associated with witchcraft and ceremonial magic.

A besom is a tool used in Wicca to cleanse and purify a space which will be used for ritual. A traditional Wiccan besom is an ash stave handle with bristles made from birch twigs. These twigs are tied on using thin pieces of willow wood. It is used to cleanse the ritual area before circle casting.

Here are a few of our favorites: According to Feng Shui, don’t take your old brooms (or mops) to your new home, as they are said to hold all of the old dirt and negativity that may have been swept up with them. Instead, throw them out and purchase new brooms to symbolize a fresh start.

“The broom can be used symbolically for protection or to represent specific energy, but it can also be used in everyday household cleaning,” Anderson says. “A witch believes her home is a reflection of the body and one’s emotional state.

Other sources have stepping over a broom as a test of chastity, while putting out a broom was also said to be a sign “that the housewife’s place is vacant” and a way, therefore, of advertising for a wife.

Jumping the broom is a traditional act performed at some Black weddings. After vows are exchanged, the newlyweds hold hands and jump over a broom to seal the union. In Pagan ceremonies, it is said that the broom handle represents the male phallus and the bristles represent female energy.

Brooms are made in layers. Each layer was wrapped tight to the handle using twine or metal wire. The wire was hammered down tight around the broomcorn and handle before the next layer was attached.

Brooms are made from a plant called broomcorn. Broomcorn is a type of sorghum plant.

Dimensions of the Wooden Broom Stick: Length: 140 cm. Diameter: 2,5 cm.

There are two types of broom, viz. hard broom and soft broom.

Straw brooms, used to sweep floors, were made from a type of grass that grew tall, one to five feet. Strong stems ended in a bundle of blades up to two feet long. Called broom sedge (more often sage), this plant flourished in old fields allowed to become fallow (lie out) and in fence rows.

Use a vacuum cleaner instead of a broom if you want to clean hardwood floors. Vacuums can pull up dust out of the crevices found on these surfaces. It also creates less airborne dust which ultimately leads to less dust on the floor.

What’s a broom maker called? A broom-squire. Tschetter has a few newer machines, but mostly he uses antiques.

Traditionally, besom brooms are made from the twiggy growth of the birch tree, and the craft was particularly strong in areas where birch coppices abounded. In other parts of the country, such as North Wales and Yorkshire, birch was frequently substituted by heather. Marram grass has also been occasionally used.

Lloyd Ray

Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934, Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. is a prolific inventor and pioneer in the field of nuclear engineering. Sampson is also a pioneer in the technology that is used in modern cell phones, but contrary to a widely held belief, he didn’t invent the cell phone.

Boone’s ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing the sleeves and bodies of women’s garments. The ironing board was very narrow, curved, and made of wood. The shape and structure allowed it to fit a sleeve and it was reversible, so one could iron both sides of the sleeve.

John Lee Love

Conrad Gessner

Downing (1857-1934) During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, Philip Bell Downing successfully filed at least five patents with the United States Patent Office.

Henry Blair

A patent is the granting of a property right by a sovereign authority to an inventor. This grant provides the inventor exclusive rights to the patented process, design, or invention for a designated period in exchange for a comprehensive disclosure of the invention.

On October 14, 1834, Blair received his patent for his mechanical corn seed planter. Blair’s corn planter resembles a wheelbarrow with a chamber fixed to the bottom that disperses the seed. After the seed is dispersed, rakes attached to the back of the wheelbarrow drag over the seed to cover them with soil.

A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. In other words, patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, used, distributed, imported, or sold by others without the patent owner’s consent.

To find out if an invention has already been patented, you can search the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) patent database. The USPTO is the federal agency responsible for reviewing patent applications and determining whether an invention is unique enough to issue a one.