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Duster

noun

A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand. Synonyms: dust storm, sandstorm, sirocco.

A loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles. Synonyms: dust coat, gabardine, gaberdine, smock.

A piece of cloth used for dusting. Synonyms: dustcloth, dustrag.

A pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter.

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"Duster" Quotes from Famous Books

... haste to unbar and unchain the front door. Aunt Pullet, too, appeared at the doorway, and as soon as her sister was within hearing said, "Stop the children, Bessy; don't let 'em come up the doorsteps. Sally's bringing the old mat and the duster to rub ...

— Tom and Maggie Tulliver • Anonymous

... new-looking. She said mine looked disgustingly dirty in our new bookcase, so I had them rebound; and this was my next step toward ruin. Lydia wanted a long peacock-feather duster to dust the top of the bookcase. I bought that. Our only long tablecloth was a damask, engarlanded and diapered and resplendent with a colored border warranted to wash. I had to buy napkins to go with it. I bought a butter-knife to match a solid silver butter-dish, and a set of individual ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various

... can we cast out evil? Satan cannot cast out Satan. No one can clean a room with a filthy duster. The surgeon cannot cut out the disease if his instruments are defiled. While he removed one ill-growth he would sow the seed of another. It must be health which fights disease. It will demand a good temper to overcome the bad temper in ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

... of an hour is very scant time in which to robe in fancy costume, but most of the girls had decided during dinner what they meant to be. Romola flew to the kitchen and borrowed an apron from the cook, tied a duster round her head, seized up a pail and a carpet-sweeper, and came as 'Domestic Service.' Beata commandeered the boarders' bath-towels and appeared as an Arab, in robe and turban. Peggie, with her dormitory eider-down for a train, was a court lady. Catie draped a scarf over ...

— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil

... you to say, 'the side my heart is,'" said Mrs. Elliot, holding up the duster between them. "Most of us—I mean all of us—can feel on one side a little watch, that never stops ticking. So even if you had no bad foot you would still know which is the left. No. 50 white, please. ...

— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

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