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Scraper   /skrˈeɪpər/   Listen
noun
Scraper  n.  
1.
An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically:
(a)
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
(b)
An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
(c)
(Naut.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
(d)
(Lithography) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.
2.
One who scrapes. Specifically:
(a)
One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
(b)
One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.






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"Scraper" Quotes from Famous Books



... begin, when my enemy, the boatswain, appeared at the galley door. "Here, cook," he said, "where's that limb of a boy? Oh, you're there, are you? Feeding your face. Get a three-cornered scraper right now. You'll scrape up that slush you spilled, before you eat so much as a reefer's nut." I had to go on deck again for another hour, while I scraped up the slush, which was, surely, spilled as much by himself as by me, since he was ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield

... eyes was cold and steel-gray. Oh, he knew the symptoms, he did. He was an observer, and he knew it, too, and some day, when he was big enough, he was going to be a reporter, sure. And in the meantime he studied the procession of life as it streamed up and down eighteen sky-scraper floors in his elevator car. He slid the door open for her sympathetically and watched her trip determinedly ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London

... patent scraper sold Old Highboys used to beat them all! See what Society has done— He's holding ...
— Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard

... was settin' in it, SO: A-readin' of a paper. His mules was goin' powerful slow, Fur he had tied the lines onto The staple of the scraper. ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... is not commonly practiced, but this is the easiest means of preventing dampness in the house and is necessary in heavy soils. The ground-level may be raised with a plow and scraper, or the foundation of the house may be built and filled ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings


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