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Cleaner   /klˈinər/   Listen
noun
Cleaner  n.  One who, or that which, cleans.


adjective
Clean  adj.  (compar. cleaner; superl. cleanest)  
1.
Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
2.
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
3.
Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
4.
Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
5.
Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. "When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field."
6.
Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. "Create in me a clean heart, O God." "That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven"
7.
(Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
8.
Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean."
9.
Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection.
Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
To make a clean breast. See under Breast.





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"Cleaner" Quotes from Famous Books



... this was the best plan under the circumstances, and a little later they were led by two or three Indians to a collection of huts that seemed larger and cleaner than the others. A supply of food was also brought for the prisoners, and, as it consisted largely of canned stuff, that was ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch - Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys • Laura Lee Hope
... have been mentioned. Rad was an ancient colored man who once owned a mule named Boomerang. Sampson was the colored servant's last name, and he declared he had chosen the one "Eradicate" because in his younger days he was a great cleaner and whitewasher, "eradicating" the dirt, ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... night sounds of the veld where water happens to be near—the soft, subdued quacking of drowsy waterfowl, the occasional "honk" of a belated goose, the stealthy splashing of bucks wading warily into the deeper and cleaner water clear of the rushes before venturing to drink, mysterious rustlings among the reeds, the distant call of buck to each other in the bush, the sharp bark of the jackal, the blood-curdling laugh of the prowling hyena, and the occasional roar of the leopard; the whole dominated by the incessant ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood
... Ross, a nephew of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who had conducted an upholsterer's business in the little shop. For a time after his death she supported herself as a lace cleaner and by continuing the business of ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins
... the child must suffer pain!" cried Mr Rendell, laughing. "That is what Kitty said, isn't it, when her mother insisted on pinning down the end of her collar? Better confess at once, Mops, and get it over! Tell your mother she can send it to the cleaner's, and I'll ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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