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Carpet sweeper   /kˈɑrpət swˈipər/   Listen
noun
Carpet  n.  
1.
A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. "Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets."
2.
A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain."
Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zool.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; also called buffalo bug.
Carpet knight.
(a)
A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person.
(b)
One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.
Carpet moth (Zool.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larvae of species of Tinea (as Tinea tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.
Carpet snake (Zool.), an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond.
Carpet sweeper, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets.
To be on the carpet, to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover.
Brussels carpet. See under Brussels.





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"Carpet sweeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... showed me objects of interest in the room, including her new carpet sweeper, a stuffed road runner, a ship built in a bottle, and the coloured crayon portraits of herself and Uncle Henry, wearing blue clothes and gold jewellery and white collars and ecru neckties. Also, the marriage certificate. This was no mere official certificate. It was the kind that costs three dollars ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson
... secures a double return—increased profit from his crop and increased pleasure of living. Viola Lawson, writing on the subject, "How to Dust and Sweep," makes some pertinent comments. "I think if a house is very dirty, a carpet sweeper is not a very good thing. A broom is best, because you can't get around the corners with a sweeper." Note this hint to the school board: "We spend about one-third of our time in the school house, so it ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing
... walls, the pictures; cleaning, dusting, and sometimes polishing the furniture. Open the windows top and bottom, dust and brush them inside and out; use a soft brush or a dust mop to take the dust from the floor. Use a carpet sweeper for the rugs unless you have electricity and can use a vacuum cleaner; collect the sweepings and ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... was out over her face, sparkling forth again after each mopping. A box arrived from a jeweler's and one from a department store. They were a pie knife and a table crumber in the form of a miniature carpet sweeper. The usual futilities with which such occasions can be cluttered and which have shaped the destinies of immemorial women into ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


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