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Scrubber   /skrˈəbər/   Listen
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Scrubber  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush or machine used in scrubbing.
2.
(Gas Manuf.) A gas washer. See under Gas.
3.
(Manufacturing) A device for removing pollutants from a gas stream, especially for removing sulfur oxides from processes burning coal or oil.


Scrubber  n.  
1.
A stunted or emaciated steer.
2.
A person who lives in the bush. (Australian)
3.
A domesticated animal which has escaped and lives wild in the bush. (Australian)





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"Scrubber" Quotes from Famous Books



... a bucket of fresh water out of the cask there. Take this scrubber. You'll find some soap in the locker there. Now scrub out the cabin as quick as ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield
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... powerful compression. The Dowson generator is 30 inches inside diameter and 76 inches in height from the bars to the top. Air is blown in by steam driven in under the hearth. There is a siphon, a coke scrubber 110 inches high, a sawdust purifier, and a gasholder of 750 cubic feet capacity, and a pipe to the engine 5.2 inches in diameter. The total area occupied by this apparatus is 140 square yards, of which two-thirds are built on. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 • Various
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... Swede who wore white kid shoes in the afternoon and gray dresses and cob-web aprons. The sight of the neat Swede sitting in her room at two-thirty in the afternoon, tatting, never failed to fill Ma Mandle with a dumb fury. Anna had been an all-day scrubber. ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber
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... could not decide. And Felipe Rivera, the scrubber for the Revolution, continued, as occasion arose, to lay down gold and silver ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London
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... of the species are interminable; some of them are well known, and need no description—such as the book-worm, the bird-stuffer, the coin-taster, the picture-scrubber, &c.; but there are others whose tastes are singularly eccentric: of these I may mention the snuff-box collector, the cane-fancier, the ring-taker, the play-bill gatherer, to say nothing of one illustrious personage, whose passion for collecting a library of Bibles is generally ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
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