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English

a feather duster

duster (long coat)

Etymology

dust +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

duster (plural dusters)

An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
Someone who dusts.
A light, loose-fitting long coat.
(paper-making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(milling) A blowing-machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(oil and gas) A dry drill hole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
(military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled, anti-aircraft gun.
(Philippines) A sundress.
(education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a blackboard.

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 (hēibǎncā) (blackboard duster)
Czech: prachovka (cs) f, hadr (cs) m
Esperanto: viŝtuko
Finnish: pölyhuisku, pölyrätti
French: chiffon (fr) m (cloth), brosse (fr) f (brush)
German: Staubtuch (de) n, Staublappen (de) m, Staubwedel m
Hungarian: porrongy (hu), portörlő rongy
Japanese: ふきん (fukin), 雑巾 (ぞうきん, zōkin), 叩き (はたき, hataki) (feather), ブラシ (burashi) (brush)
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Korean: 걸레 (ko) (geolle), 먼지떨이 (meonjitteori)
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
Swahili: dasta (sw)
Tagalog: pamalis
Ukrainian: ганчі́рка f (hančírka)

Translations to be checked

See also

Duster (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Template:commonslite

Anagrams

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

German

Pronunciation

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈduːstɐ/

Adjective

duster (comparative dusterer or dustrer, superlative am dustersten)

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of düster

Derived terms

Further reading

“duster” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

duster m

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) indefinite plural of dust