Translation for "carpet-beater" to spanish
Translation examples
He held the carpet-beater over her buttocks.
Alzó el batidor de alfombras sobre sus nalgas.
The judge spent pleasurable if hard-working hours with Polly by night, binding her hand and foot to the bed, beating her with an old-fashioned bamboo carpet beater.
El juez pasaba placenteras, aunque trabajosas horas nocturnas con Polly, atándola de pies y manos a la cama y azotándola con un anticuado batidor de alfombras confeccionado en bambú.
Marcello went down to the garden armed with a length of thin and flexible rush that he had torn from an old carpet beater in the attic;
Marcello bajaba al jardín armado de un junco seco, delgado y flexible, que había arrancado, en la buhardilla, de un viejo sacudidor de alfombras;
William, running downstairs at six, found a very different population from the daylight one—a host of silently hurrying, black-clad young women, carrying buckets of cinders, buckets of water, boxes of polishing tools, fistfuls of brooms and brushes and carpet beaters.
William, que había bajado corriendo las escaleras a las seis, se encontró con una población muy distinta de la diurna: una hueste de jóvenes vestidas de negro, silenciosas y diligentes, que acarreaban cubos de ceniza, cubos de agua, cajas de utensilios para encerar, puñados de escobas y cepillos y sacudidores de alfombras.
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