MediumNature
"I am a house whose builder has moved out. I gather dust in the corners where brooms forget to go, and one sweep brings me down. What am I?"
Answer
A Cobweb
Explanation
A cobweb is an old, abandoned spider's web that has gathered dust. The 'cob' comes from 'coppe', an old English word for spider — so a cobweb is simply a spider-web.
This is a medium riddle in the Nature category — Riddles about the natural world, animals, weather and geography.
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