carpet beater

Grimacing, she gripped the woven carpet beater with both hands.

Above him Cornelius ran his eye over a box of ancient cane carpet beaters.

Bula bought a carpet beater and some other things and they went back to the car.

As she walked around behind me, she swished the carpet beater rapidly in the air.

This mark is often colloquially referred to as the, 'carpet beater symbol'.

"This is a carpet beater," she explained.

While Gideon sipped, Eleanor raced to a corner to pick up a wire carpet beater.

She throws the carpet beater to the ground, takes Pingu's kite and stomps back towards her igloo.

Safe spanking instruments include carpet beaters, soft flails, paddles, and spatulas; if used properly, these objects do not hurt.

H. E. Hessler Company manufactured carpet beaters in Syracuse in 1903.

Mannie drops the carpet beater to the floor; the arm twisting gets harder; at last, Mannie cries out in pain.

The sound made by the rotor blades (colloquially called "carpet beater") is perceived as particularly noisy in comparison with the Bölkow Bo-105.

Wallie jeered and called him a weakling, a pretty-boy gelding, an impotent pansy, and a carpet beater.

Here, he echoes that combination by adorning a kilim rug with about two dozen drumsticks (the kind used on drums) and titling it "Carpet Beater."

She stops to pick up the table-tennis paddle from where Mannie had let it fall on the floor when she had started spanking me with the carpet beater.

In the Netherlands and parts of Belgium the carpet beater was also a common tool for parents to discipline (spank) their children, leaving a distinctive pattern on the child's buttocks.

Jo didn't want to, but Joan ran after her with a carpet beater, vowing and declaring she would beat the dust and dirt out of her if she didn't bath.

Mixed with household items (a caned chair, bedspreads, pillows, a carpet beater), they appeared in the small books he produced in 1935 and 1949, hand-tipped onto the pages and often hand-colored.

Pingo is watching worriedly from nearby when the grouchy neighbor suddenly rushes out from her igloo, brandishing a carpet beater, and tells them to go away in a grouchy way.

In Ian's Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953), James Bond is tortured by the main villain, Le Chiffre, with a carpet beater.

When Bond regains consciousness, Le Chiffre proceeds to torture him by repeatedly whipping him in the testicles with the large knotted end of a roped carpet beater, trying to extort the password that will enable Le Chiffre to collect the tournament winnings.