A carpet beater was used to spank every object in sight.
From the latimes.com
Having designed a carpet beater and roof tiling, Fioravanti has moved on to the kitchen with the Fusion Cooking for Normann Copenhagen collection.
From the time.com
They would remove the wool carpets and take them outside to be hung over a clothesline and beaten with a special carpet beater to get the dirt out, Matthiessen said.