scrubber

UK /ˈskɹʌbə/ US /ˈskɹʌbɚ/

noun 5

Collocations

ADJ.

gentle, old, real

VERB + SCRUBBER

use

SCRUBBER + NOUN

feller, seaside, sponge

PREP.

noun

A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.

A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.

A device that removes impurities from gases.

A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.

An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.

‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’

Wiktionary

What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?

Wiktionary

Use a gentle scrubber or sponge to clean utensils, avoiding abrasive materials.

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