Synonyms of the word duster


DUSTERCOVERALL - DELIVERY - DUSTCLOTH - DUSTRAG - GABARDINE - GABERDINE - PITCH - SANDSTORM - SIROCCO - SMOCK - WINDSTORM

duster

  • n. An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
  • n. Someone who dusts.
  • n. A light, loose-fitting long coat.
  • n. (paper-making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
  • n. (milling) A blowing-machine for separating the flour from the bran.
  • n. (oil and gas) A dry drill hole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
  • n. (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled, anti-aircraft gun.

coverall

  • n. (chiefly US) A loose-fitting protective garment worn over other clothing.

delivery

  • n. The act of conveying something.
  • n. The item which has been conveyed.
  • n. The act of giving birth.
  • n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • n. The manner of speaking.
  • n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
  • n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
  • n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

dustcloth

  • n. A cloth used for dusting; a duster.

dustrag

  • n. A dustcloth.

gabardine

  • n. (uncountable, countable) A type of woolen cloth with a diagonal ribbed texture on one side.
  • n. (uncountable, countable) A similar fabric, made from cotton.
  • n. (countable) A gaberdine (garment).
  • n. (countable) A yellow robe that Jews in England were compelled to wear in the year 1189 as a mark of distinction.

gaberdine

  • n. A long cloak.
  • n. A textile, see gabardine.

pitch

  • n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
  • n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
  • n. (geology) Pitchstone.
  • v. To cover or smear with pitch.
  • v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
  • n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
  • n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
  • n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
  • n. An effort to sell or promote something.
  • n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
  • n. The angle at which an object sits.
  • n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
  • n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
  • n. The place where a busker performs.
  • n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
  • n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
  • n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
  • n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
  • n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
  • n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
  • n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
  • n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
  • n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
  • v. (transitive) To throw.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
  • v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
  • v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
  • v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
  • v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
  • v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
  • v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
  • v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
  • v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
  • v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
  • v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
  • v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
  • n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
  • n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

sandstorm

  • n. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.

sirocco

  • n. A hot southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent…
  • n. A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.

smock

  • n. A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
  • n. A blouse; a smock frock.
  • n. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock.
  • adj. Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
  • v. (transitive) To apply smocking.

windstorm

  • n. A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation.

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