Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small broom used about a fireplace for sweeping up ashes, cinders, etc.
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Examples
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But Meg, without deigning farther reply, flourished around her head the hearth-broom, which she had been employing to its more legitimate purpose, when disturbed in her housewifery by Captain
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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In my opinion she would storm a town, single-handed, with a hearth-broom, and carry it.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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But finding nothing better to his purpose, he cut some bristles off his hearth-broom, and enclosed them in a letter to his country enthusiast, who received them with due reverence.
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The minor problem which now remained of freeing the cylinder's teeth from their congestion of lint found a solution in Mrs. Greene's stroke with a hearth-broom.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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That is why Mary insisted on using one now instead of a modern hearth-broom.
Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897
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He was surrounded in an instant, kissed, caressed, and thanked till he declared his life was in danger, and threatened to take up the hearth-broom in self-defence; finally they trooped off, to hold a consultation in the hall.
Fernley House Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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The proprietor of this charming retreat, and owner of the ragged head before mentioned -- for he wore an old tie-wig as bare and frowzy as a stunted hearth-broom -- had by this time joined them; and stood a little apart, rubbing his hands, wagging his hoary bristled chin, and smiling in silence.
Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892
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But finding nothing better to his purpose, he cut some bristles off his hearth-broom, and enclosed them in a letter to his country enthusiast, who received them with due reverence.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He cut off some bristles from a hearth-broom in the doctor's chambers, and sent them in a letter to his fellow-enthusiast.
Samuel Johnson Leslie, Stephen 1878
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When it does it will be time to resort to that hearth-broom, and restrict combustion with collected caput-mortuum of Derby-Brights, selected, twenty-seven shillings.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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