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carpet sweeper
Word definitions for carpet sweeper in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A carpet sweeper is a mechanical device for the cleaning of carpets . They were popular before the introduction of the vacuum cleaner and have been largely superseded by them. However, they continue to be used in many home and commercial applications because ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carpet \Car"pet\ (k[aum]r"p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo`s fruit, E. Harvest ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the device is pushed over a carpet [syn: sweeper ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Dodging between the vinyl booths is Luis Valencia, busily attacking a pile of crumbs with his 3M carpet sweeper . ▪ If in any doubt, it is safer to use a carpet sweeper or brush. ▪ The mechanism of the Ewbank carpet sweeper is ...
Usage examples of carpet sweeper.
The old-fashioned carpet sweeper she was using now collected the superficial dirt, but that was about all.
Her plate was cleared away, and a young man in a white jacket cleaned the crumbs off the table with a little thing that looked like a miniature carpet sweeper.
The room was clean, orderly, the pile of the rug still striped in bands left by a carpet sweeper.
There had to be an old carpet sweeper up in the attic, and he could always use that.
I finished dressing, went into the kitchen, plugged in the coffee maker, and washed the supper dishes I'd left in the sink, then got the carpet sweeper and went over the rug in the living room.
The room is spotless, but the carpet has begun to begun to nap--- Crawford will not run the noisy vacuum cleaner in the room and uses a manual carpet sweeper that is not as good.
Stilland this was even scarierit was possible to download a lot of information into a human brain and then switch off frequencies and bandwidth so that you could switch these robotic humans the same way you could swap a robot carpet sweeper.
Now, suddenly, you begin talking about him as though hes nothing but some ingenious kind of carpet sweeper!
Jumping up, she fetched the carpet sweeper and a duster from the kitchen and set to work with feverish energy.