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Discover LudwigThe word 'dustpan' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a flat pan with a handle, used for sweeping and collecting dust and debris from the floor. Example: I grabbed the dustpan and broom to clean up the spilled cereal on the kitchen floor.
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dustpan
noun
A flat scoop with a short handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.
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A dustpan.
The very word "Soviet" was shortened to sovok, which in Russian means "dustpan".
Put with it Refound's metal-handled dustpan (£6.75) and you are set up for the season.
A 'golf' set piece has one audience member trying to thwack a table tennis ball, with a plastic putter, into a hole fashioned from a dustpan, suspended in mid-air by another audience member.
She goes back for a robe and slippers and a broom and dustpan and sweeps up the broken glass.
Inside them I could dimly make out a tangle of wires, a bulging plastic bag, and an old dustpan.
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A drive-in net may be one of those already mentioned or may be specially made, such as the dustpan-shaped stationary gear used in some fisheries in South Asia.
On this day, the operators had to raise the dustpan-shaped intake head every half-hour or so to clear a bit of cable or scrap.
All the walking and sweeping and mopping and dustpan-banging — there's a whole symphony happening that Sam and the actors orchestrated… But I wouldn't call that silence.
But the Middle East was a minor distraction inside the Seventh, a dustpan-shaped district with some of the nation's poorest counties.
Most scenes in the play take place in the witching hour between screenings, as Sam and Avery pass through the empty theatre with their dustpans, gabbing about movies and life.
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