duster
part of speech
noun (a duster, dusters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cloth for wiping dust off furniture and shelves. tree →
2) A board duster or board rubber: a pad used to wipe a chalkboard or whiteboard clean. tree →
3) (US, Australia) A long, light coat worn to keep dust off, especially by riders. tree →
4) A light housecoat. tree →
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 →
- The teacher wiped the board with a duster. tree →
- Grandma uses a feather duster on the high shelves. tree →
- Mole spring-cleaned his house with brooms and dusters until his back ached. tree →
- The cowboy wore a long brown duster. tree →
- Shake the duster outside so the dust doesn't fly back in. tree →
- The board duster was full of chalk. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.