carpet beater

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   implement for beating dust out of carpets

   Synonymsrug beater

   Broaderbeater

   Partshandle

Questions about carpet beater

What does carpet beater mean?

carpet beater means "implement for beating dust out of carpets".

What is another word for carpet beater?

Close synonyms include rug beater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carpet beater a common word?

carpet beater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.