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# duster

«duster» in Mova's school dictionary: **A cloth for wiping dust off furniture and shelves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a duster, dusters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cloth for wiping dust off furniture and shelves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#m1)

2) A board duster or board rubber: a pad used to wipe a chalkboard or whiteboard clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#m2)

3) (US, Australia) A long, light coat worn to keep dust off, especially by riders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#m3)

4) A light housecoat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

An everyday word from cleaning and from the classroom: teachers use a board duster. Phrases: «feather duster», «give the shelves a going-over with a duster». In old stories maids carry dusters; in Westerns cowboys wear dusters.

### examples

- Mum gave me a yellow duster to polish the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x1)
- The teacher wiped the board with a duster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x2)
- Grandma uses a feather duster on the high shelves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x3)
- Mole spring-cleaned his house with brooms and dusters until his back ached. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x4)
- The cowboy wore a long brown duster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x5)
- Shake the duster outside so the dust doesn't fly back in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x6)
- The board duster was full of chalk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/#x7)

### note

Countable: a duster, dusters. From «dust» + -er (a thing that removes dust). In the UK «duster» usually means the cloth; in the USA «dust cloth» or «dust rag» is common, and «duster» more often means the coat or a feather duster. A «crop duster» is a plane that sprays crops.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «duster» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duster/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.