duster
See also: düster
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdʌstɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdʌstə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
duster (plural dusters)
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- Hyponym: feather duster
- Someone who dusts.
- Hypernyms: cleaner, housekeeper, housecleaner, cleaning lady, maid, chambermaid
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- Hypernym: coat
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- Hypernym: implement
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- Hypernyms: dress < garment
- Coordinate term: housecoat
- Near-synonym: housedress
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- Hypernym: eraser (elliptically synonymous)
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- A duststorm.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Cebuano: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)
- → Indonesian: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)
- → Tagalog: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)
Translations
object used for dusting
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person who dusts
a light, loose-fitting long coat
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Further reading
- duster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- duster (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:dusters on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈduːstɐ/
Audio: (file)
Adjective
duster (strong nominative masculine singular dusterer, comparative dusterer or dustrer, superlative am dustersten)
- alternative form of düster
Derived terms
- stockduster
- zappenduster
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
duster m
- indefinite plural of dust
Swedish
Noun
duster
- indefinite plural of dust