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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.

Shrape, Shrap n. (Written also scrap) A place baited with chaff to entice birds. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Scrap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... volume a scrap of wise counsel to take life cheerfully, from the Scottish poet, William Dunbar. He lived at the Scottish Court of James the Fourth when Henry the Seventh reigned in England, and who was our greatest poet of the north country ...

— Playful Poems • Henry Morley

... nodded, but he could not be sure. Nevertheless, he ventured to lay the scrap down on a small table he was passing, and when he again looked back, saw that it was gone and Huldah with it. But whither, he could not be quite sure. There was always a risk in these attempts, and he only half trusted the girl. She ...

— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green

... duty of a cook who is given an apple to cook is," I said, "to see that every scrap of the divine—of the flavour of the apple is smothered ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 • Various

... of the chief mover of the late conspiracy, who had paid the penalty of his treason without betraying his accomplices. If this was indeed his signature, with which the authorities were certainly acquainted, the scrap of paper, were I free to carry it to Paris, would put the life of the Count ...

— The Bright Face of Danger • Robert Neilson Stephens

... the spacious vacancy that unrolled itself farther and farther in quest of the fugitive horizon. The scrap of view that came within a closer range of vision spun past the car windows like a bit of stage mechanism, a gigantic panorama rotating to simulate a race at breakneck speed. But Miss Carmichael looked ...

— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

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