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brushbar

brushbar noun: a rotating bar with brushlike bristles, used in certain cleaning appliances.

Noun

brushbar (plural brushbars)

  1. A rotating bar with brushlike bristles, used in certain cleaning appliances.
    • It's all pretty simple. If you want to get hairs out of a carpet, you need a whirling brushbar of death. No amount of suck will do it.1999, Steve Wiseman, “Vacuum Cleaners”, in cam.misc (Usenet)
    • A string had caught in the brushbar and shut down the belt drive. This was quickly fixed and we hosed up the rest of the filth.2005 March, Popular Mechanics, volume 182, number 3

Forms of brushbar

pluralbrushbars

Origin of brushbar

From brush + bar.

Questions about brushbar

What does brushbar mean?
Brushbar means a rotating bar with brushlike bristles, used in certain cleaning appliances.
What part of speech is brushbar?
Brushbar is a noun.
What is the plural of brushbar?
The plural of brushbar is brushbars.

Words near brushbar in the dictionary

  1. Brushaski
  2. brushback
  3. brushback pitch
  4. brushback pitches
  5. brushbacks
  6. brushbar
  7. brushbars
  8. brushbot
  9. brushbroom
  10. brushcut
  11. brushcuts

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