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carpet sweeper

noun as in vacuum cleaner

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They have many household conveniences: running water in a barrel, a blue flame oil stove, a bread-mixer, and a carpet-sweeper.

Brush up the drawing-room or go over the floor with a carpet-sweeper, wipe up the hard-wood floors, and dust the rooms.

The mucous membranes of his throat were as dry and as full of dust as the entrails of a carpet sweeper.

When you remove the waste from your carpet-sweeper, carefully cut the lint and hair from the revolving rolls and brushes.

The little upholstery tuft-cleaner consumes only one-ninth as much power as the carpet-sweeper.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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