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carpet beater

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Noun1.carpet beater - implement for beating dust out of carpets
rug beater
beater - an implement for beating
handgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"


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The higher a carpet's pile, he says, the harder it is to pull out that dust, although vacuums with powered carpet beaters can remove up to five times as much dust as suction-only devices.
Home carpets: shoeing in toxic pollution by Raloff, Janet / Science News
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