corn broom

American  

noun

Northeastern U.S. Older Use.

1. a broom made from the panicles of broomcorn.

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Etymology

Origin of corn broom

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

I have known boys to use a corn broom to spray with.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

To this class of plants belong corn, broom corn, sorghum, sugar cane, bagasse, flax, hemp, and the cereal straws.

From Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404 by Dewey, Lyster H. (Lyster Hoxie)

There is a chiropodist now travelling in the East who removes excrescences of the feet simply by sweeping them away with a corn broom.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870 by Various