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Duster vs Auster - What's the difference?

duster | auster |

As nouns the difference between duster and auster

is that duster is an object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc while auster is the south wind.

duster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
  • Someone who dusts.
  • A light, loose-fitting long coat.
  • (label) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
  • (label) A blowing-machine for separating the flour from the bran.
  • (label) A dry drill hole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
  • A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled, anti-aircraft gun.

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    auster

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Roman god) The god of the south wind.
  • The south wind, especially when personified.
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    • , date=10 June , title=How to Make an Epic Poem , journal=Guardian , author= , passage=For a Tempest. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. citation
  • * 1989 , :
    • ‘My homeland too,’ Aetius grinned. ‘I was born under the Auster .’

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