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See also: düster

English

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a feather duster

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duster (long coat)

Etymology

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From dust +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌstɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌstə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

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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.
Hypernyms: machine, blower

Coordinate term: winnower
(oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
Hypernyms: drillhole < hole
(military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
Hypernyms: gun < weapon
(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.
Near-synonyms: sandstorm (broadly synonymous), haboob

→ Cebuano: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)
→ Indonesian: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)
→ Sindhi: ڊَسٽَرُ (ḍasṭaru)
→ Tagalog: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

Translations

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object used for dusting

Arabic: مِمْسَحَة f (mimsaḥa), مِمْسَح m (mimsaḥ)
Belarusian: ану́ча f (anúča)
Bulgarian: парца́л (bg) m (parcál), бърса́лка (bg) f (bǎrsálka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抹布 (zh) (mābù), 黑板擦 (zh) (hēibǎncā) (blackboard duster)
Czech: prachovka (cs) f, hadr (cs) m
Danish: støveklud c
Dutch: stofdoek (nl) m
Esperanto: viŝtuko
Finnish: pölyhuisku, pölyrätti
French: chiffon (fr) m (cloth), brosse (fr) f (brush)
German: Staubtuch (de) n, Staublappen (de) m, Staubwedel (de) m
Hungarian: porrongy (hu), portörlő rongy
Irish: glantóir deannaigh m, ceirt deannaigh f (cloth)
Italian: spolverino (it) m
Japanese: ふきん (ja) (fukin), 雑巾 (ja) (ぞうきん, zōkin), 叩き (ja) (はたき, hataki) (feather), ブラシ (ja) (burashi) (brush)
Korean: 걸레 (ko) (geolle), 먼지떨이 (meonjitteori)
Macedonian: бри́шалка f (bríšalka), крпа f (krpa)
Norman: êpousseteux m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: støvklut m

Nynorsk: støvklut m
Portuguese: apagador m
Russian: тря́пка (ru) f (trjápka) (cloth), щётка (ru) f (ščótka) (brush)
Scottish Gaelic: dustair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кр̏па f

Latin: kȑpa (sh) f
Slovak: prachovka f, handra f
Slovene: krpa (sl) f
Spanish: plumero (es) m
Swahili: dasta (sw)
Tagalog: pamalis
Ukrainian: ганчі́рка f (hančírka)
Welsh: clwtyn m, cadach (cy) m, sychwr (cy) m

person who dusts

Czech: metař (cs) m
Finnish: pölyttäjä (fi), pölyjen pyyhkijä
German: Staubwischer m, Staubwischerin f
Russian: убо́рщик (ru) m (ubórščik), убо́рщица (ru) f (ubórščica)
Welsh: glanhäwr m, glanhawraig f

a light, loose-fitting long coat

Danish: housecoat c, kittel c
German: Staubmantel (de) m
Irish: dustar m
Japanese: ダスター (dasutā), 上っ張り (うわっぱり, uwappari)
Korean: 더스터 (deoseuteo)
Russian: пы́льник (ru) m (pýlʹnik)
Welsh: côt ddwster f

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