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/skræp ˈaɪərn/ Listen

noun

Scrap n.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. "I have no materials not a scrap."

Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.

pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

pl. Same as Scrap iron, below.

Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap.

Scrap iron.

(a)

Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; called also wrought-iron scrap.

(b)

Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; called also foundry scrap, or cast scrap.

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Etymology of 'Scrap iron'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... boiler. This very much exceeds the proportion usually adopted; and in scarcely any instance are boilers stayed sufficiently to be safe when the shell is composed of flat surfaces. The furnaces should be stayed together with bolts of the best scrap iron, 1-1/4 inch in diameter, tapped through both plates of the water space with thin nuts in each furnace; and it is expedient to make the row of stays, running horizontally near the level of the bars, sufficiently low to come beneath ...

— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... influenced by local interest, could reduce any duty at their pleasure. In this way, often by a majority of one, amendments were adopted that destroyed the harmony of the bill. In this way iron ore, pig iron, scrap iron and wool were sacrificed in the Senate. They were classed as raw materials for manufactures and not as manufactures. For selfish and local reasons tin plates, cotton, ties and iron and steel rods for ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... his foot against a piece of scrap iron and reeled backward in spite of all he could, his friends groaned, while Fret ...

— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood

... of B.H.Q. Both places came in for heavy shelling at intervals all day and night, for both were situated about the end of a trench tramway, an obvious place for dumping stores. However I had the latter dump moved to a better place, some distance from the tramway, where there was less scrap iron lying about. During this tour in the line which lasted eight days, I was employed in looking after the observers and the two Brigade bomb stores. Towards the close of our stay I started to make a new bomb store in Hexham Road. Capt. ...

— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley