Definition of Broom handle

1. Noun. The handle of a broom.

Exact synonyms: Broomstick
Group relationships: Broom
Generic synonyms: Grip, Handgrip, Handle, Hold

Lexicographical Neighbors of Broom Handle

brooklime
brooklimes
brookside
brooksides
brookweed
brookweeds
brool
brools
broom
broom-like
broom-weed
broom closet
broom corn
broom handle (current term)
broom palm
broom rape
broom sedge
broom snakeroot
broom snakeweed
broom tree
broom wagon
broomball
broomballer
broomballers
broomcorn
broomcorn millet
broomcorns

Literary usage of Broom handle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Wonderful Progress: The World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works : a Vast by Trumbull White (1902)
"In the lower end of every broom handle a small hole is bored, and when the workman has placed a handle in the winder the end of the wire is passed through ..."

2. Vision: A Magazine for Youth (1890)
"Cut one of these off to a convenient length for vour dust broom handle. ... For common purposes an old broom handle may be used instead of the parasol ..."

3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1841)
"To carry out the first improvement, the broom-handle is fixed obliquely in an ... The lengthening of the broom-handle is effected by sliding over it a tube ..."

4. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"The broom handle Trust can now manufacture these handles cheaper than they ... Every advantage in the case of protection rests with the broom handle Trust. ..."

5. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1911)
"Ice Scraper on a broom handle Packed snow and ice on steps and sidewalks cannot be removed ... I FlS.2 Scraper on End of broom handle ment for the handle, ..."

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