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
• cropduster
• electric 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)
• 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)
• 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

  Roman: 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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
• Category:dusters on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• rusted, derust, redust, durste, rudest, Studer, strude, Duerst, uderts, deturs

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

duster m

1. indefinite plural of dust

Swedish

Noun

duster

1. indefinite plural of dust