carpet beater
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5.3
- noun
- Archaic
:
batea alfombras
- She used a carpet beater to clean the living room.
Examples
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The museum displayed a collection of antique carpet beaters and other cleaning tools.
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Before vacuum cleaners were common, people used a carpet beater to clean their rugs.
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She found an old carpet beater in her grandmother’s attic.
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The carpet beater is an effective cleaning tool.
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She used a carpet beater to remove the dust from the old rug.
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After the rain, he took the carpet beater outside to clean the doormat.
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The maid grabbed the carpet beater to freshen up the living room carpet.
Synonyms
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1.6
A machine that cleans floors and carpets by sucking up dust and dirt
41
1.0
An electric machine that cleans floors and carpets by sucking up dust
8
3.8
A tool that mixes food or removes dust from a carpet
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1.9
A cleaning machine with revolving brushes you push to pick up dirt from floors
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3.6
A machine that removes dust and dirt from floors and carpets
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3.1
A machine that cleans carpets and upholstery using water and shampoo
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3.5
A device with moving brushes that you push over carpets to collect dirt
A handheld tool people use to remove dust from rugs
A small portable machine that sucks up dirt from chairs or car seats
A small portable machine that sucks up dirt from small areas
A small portable cleaner you hold in one hand to clean small messes
A small vacuum you hold to clean crumbs in cars or on sofas
A tool like a broom or mop used to clean floors and other surfaces
A tool like a vacuum or brush that cleans surfaces
How Powerful
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3.5
41
1.0
1
1.0
107
1.0
- Archaic
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5.3
88
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'carpet' (floor covering) with 'beater' (an instrument that beats or a device 'one that beats'), yielding a tool that beats carpets to remove dust. This simple noun–noun composition and the productive sense of '-er'/"beater" as 'one that beats' makes the term immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Carpet beater comes from the simple action of hitting a carpet with a hand tool so the dust falls out. The tool was called a beater because it 'beat' the dirt away, so the name now means a small tool used 'to remove dust and dirt' from rugs.