duster

See also: düster

English

Etymology

From dust +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

duster (plural dusters)

  1. An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
    Hyponym: feather duster
  2. Someone who dusts.
    Hypernyms: cleaner, housekeeper, housecleaner, cleaning lady, maid, chambermaid
  3. A loose-fitting long coat.
    Hypernym: coat
  4. (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
    Hypernym: implement
  5. (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
    Hypernyms: machine, blower
    Coordinate term: winnower
  6. (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
    Hypernyms: drillhole < hole
  7. (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
    Hypernyms: gun < weapon
  8. (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
  9. (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
    Hypernym: eraser (elliptically synonymous)
  10. (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
  11. A duststorm.
    Near-synonyms: sandstorm (broadly synonymous), haboob

Derived 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

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Further reading

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈduːstɐ/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

duster (strong nominative masculine singular dusterer, comparative dusterer or dustrer, superlative am dustersten)

  1. alternative form of düster

Derived terms

Further reading

  • duster” in Duden online
  • duster” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

duster m

  1. indefinite plural of dust

Swedish

Noun

duster

  1. indefinite plural of dust