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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dustpan
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dustpan full of horse manure with the dustpan's brush stuck firmly into the stuff.
▪ E1 was in the kitchen, sweeping borax into a dustpan.
▪ I carried the mess, in the dustpan, into the garden.
▪ I dropped the dustpan and ran indoors.
▪ Just like Victorine had become busy with dustpan and brush.
▪ No, with your hands, not with the dustpan.
▪ She emptied the dustpan and searched for something else to do, straightening the Christmas cards on the mantelpiece as she passed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dustpan

dustpan \dust"pan`\ (d[u^]st"p[a^]n`), n. A shovel-like utensil with a short handle used for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.

Wiktionary
dustpan

n. A flat scoop with a short handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.

WordNet
dustpan
  1. n. the quantity that a dustpan will hold [syn: dustpanful]

  2. a short-handled receptacle into which dust can be swept

Wikipedia
Dustpan

A dustpan, the small version of which is also known as a "half brush and shovel", is a cleaning utensil. The dustpan alone is commonly used in combination with a broom or long brush. The small dustpan may appear to be a type of flat scoop. Though often hand-held for home use, industrial and commercial enterprises use a hinged variety on the end of a stick to allow the user to stand instead of stoop while using it. This latter improved dustpan design was patented by African-American inventor Lloyd Ray on August 9, 1897, while the first patented dustpan was by T.E. McNeill nearly 40 years prior.

Handheld dustpans may be used with either a full-size broom or with a smaller whisk broom or a brush sometimes called a duster. This second combination may be sold as one unit. A variant on the dustpan is the silent butler, a handheld, lidded dustpan.

Usage examples of "dustpan".

On the corner opposite, the old man from the house above bent sweeping leaves into a dustpan, straightened up carrying the thing level before him like an offering, each movement, each shuffled step reckoned anxiously toward an open garbage can where he emptied it with ceremonial concern, balanced the broom upright like a crosier getting his footing, wiping a dry forehead, perching his glasses square and lifting his bald gaze on high to branches yellow-blown with benisons yet to fall.

Mrs Booth no because it was all your despair locked away in that room there with the smoke and the cobwebs, pouring a drink with that old man and his dustpan pretending there was some reason to get up in the morning?

Which usually meant, as was the way with those old jossers well above the pensionable age, talking about the dim and distant past when a pint of beer was a pint of beer and the sound of a horse-drawn cart approaching along the road outside was enough to send every self-respecting householder running for his dustpan and broom.

I kep a broom propped in the hall with the dustpan poked onto the end of the handle ever since she had her first hissy over the dust bunnies.

He held the big industrial dustpan carefully, headed for the inbuilt hospital-style sharps container, the one with the barbed biohazard symbol.

The china closet rattled -- he was taking more glasses, three were not enough -- and a moment later Oskar heard the familiar music: to his mind's eye appeared the Zeidler tile stove, eight shattered liqueur glasses beneath its cast-iron door, Zeidler bending down for the dustpan and brush, Zeidler sweeping up all the breakage that the Hedgehog had created.

Quite superfluously several dustpans full of fir needles detached themselves at the same time.

There were also alert sweepers with longhandled brushes and dustpans, to tackle the upended ashtrays and the shattered glass.

That was a drag on festival days—I had to employ a bunch of imps with dustpans and brushes to sweep away the pieces.

Agents were restless and boisterous around the back of the open tailgate of the supertruck with its shiny aluminum interior divided into shelves and jump seats, and its outside compartments packed with reels of yellow crime-scene tape, and dustpans, picks, floodlights, whisk brooms, wrecking bars, and chop saws.

He walked into the kitchen, saw a dustpan and brush by the rubbish bin and, crouching down, neatly swept up the broken shards and put them in the bin.

He stops in the kitchen for the box of large-size Baggies, a couple of wastebasket liners, a dustpan, and the whisk broom.