duster

duster

See also: düster

English

a feather duster

duster (long coat)

Etymology

From dust +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌstɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌstə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

duster (plural dusters)

1. An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
2. Someone who dusts.
3. A loose-fitting long coat.
4. (paper-making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
5. (milling) A blowing-machine for separating the flour from the bran.
6. (oil and gas) A dry drill hole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
7. (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled, anti-aircraft gun.
8. (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well within the vicinity of one's home.
9. (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a blackboard.
10. (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.

Derived terms

• air duster
• feather duster
• knuckle duster
• knuckle-duster

 

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

Arabic: مِمْسَحَة‎ f (mimsaḥa), مِمْسَح‎ m (mimsaḥ) Belarusian: ану́ча f (anúča) Chinese: Mandarin: 抹布 (zh) (mābù), 黑板擦 (zh) (hēibǎncā) (blackboard duster) Czech: prachovka (cs) f, hadr (cs) m Danish: støveklud c 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 Japanese: ふきん (ja) (fukin), 雑巾 (ja) (ぞうきん, zōkin), 叩き (はたき, hataki) (feather), ブラシ (burashi) (brush) Korean: 걸레 (ko) (geolle), 먼지떨이 (meonjitteori) Macedonian: бри́шалка f (bríšalka) 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 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: ダスターコート (dasutā kōto), 上っ張り (うわっぱり, uwappari), ダスター (dasutā) Russian: пы́льник (ru) m (pýlʹnik) Welsh: côt ddwster f

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Translations to be checked

Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) pahalica (sh), (please verify) pajalica (sh)

Further reading

• duster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• duster (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dusters on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Studer, deturs, durste, rudest, rusted, strude, uderts

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduːstɐ/

• Audio

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Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of düster

Derived terms

• stockduster
• zappenduster

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

duster m

1. indefinite plural of dust