duster

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)
    • Sindhi: ڊَسٽَرُ (ḍasṭaru)
    • Tagalog: daster (type of loose dress worn at home)

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    German

    Pronunciation

    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[1] (in German)

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Noun

    duster m

    1. indefinite plural of dust

    Swedish

    Noun

    duster

    1. indefinite plural of dust