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noun

duster n.

One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. Specifically:

(a)

(Paper Making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.

(b)

(Milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

(c)

A dustcloth or a brush used for removing dust from objects or surfaces.

A long light overgarment; specifically

(a)

A light over-garment, formerly worn when traveling in open vehicles to protect the clothing from dust. (U.S.)

(b)

A light housecoat worn by women.

(c)

A light overcoat worn by women, often having no lining.

A device for spreading a powder, especially one for spreading insecticide on plants.

(Baseball) A pitch intentionally thrown by a pitcher directly at or very close to the batter, intended to make the batter stand further away from home plate; also called a dust-back pitch or a dust-back.

A dust storm.

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"Duster" Quotes from Famous Books

... Will yuh come to arth, yuh rascal?" shouted the irate woman who was garbed in a man's farm hat and a long duster. ...

— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... could write your name with your finger in the dust or blacks. The other side of the "things" is therefore now evenly dirtied or dusted. The housemaid then flaps every thing, or some things, not out of her reach, with a thing called a duster—the dust flies up, then re-settles more equally than it lay before the operation. The room has ...

— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale

... dear," he would say with imperturbable good-nature,—"really, I am too forgetful. I must have a self-regulating machine attached to my movements,—a portable duster and hat-catcher. But, the blessed freedom of home. It constitutes half its joy. Dear me! I would not exchange the privilege of doing as I please for the ...

— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... opening my eyes the next morning, saw the sunlight shining into the squalid room. Evidently it had been empty on my arrival at the house, and Mrs. Loveridge had flung these things on the floor, and placed a basin and what looked like a duster on a broken-backed chair, and considered the room furnished. Not aware of the time, but believing it to be quite early, I got up and said my prayers and began my toilet, with the intention of going downstairs to explore the house. Having lain ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... recitations for the day. Once Tom found him there hunched up in a corner of the window-seat while the chambermaid, viewing his presence distastefully, draped the furniture with bedding and did her best with broom and duster to discourage him from a repetition of the outrage. Between ten and eleven on three days a week Steve put in an hour of study in the room. On other days he managed to snatch two half-hour periods in the library between recitations. At six he was almost invariably awaiting ...

— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour

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