dust catcher
Americannoun
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Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
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a chamber in which dust is collected.
Example Sentences
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A 250-metre exclusion zone has been put in place for the levelling of the Redcar blast furnace, the casting houses, the dust catcher and conveyors.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2022
To check, turn the item over and remove a portion of the dust catcher beneath.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2022
I told the President that I didn't want to be chairman of a commission that was going to produce another dust catcher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the instrument is a great dust catcher and seems to have been constructed with a perverse ingenuity so as to make it as difficult as possible to clean.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
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