Scraper
['skreɪpə] or ['skrepɚ]
Definition
(n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.
(n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
(n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
(n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One who scrapes.
(n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
(n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Editor: Shelton
Examples
- The arch?ologists, as the Record continues, are presently able to distinguish scrapers, borers, knives, darts, throwing stones, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The outer rolls _d e_ are pressed against the inner ones _a c_ by a system of weighted levers, and scrapers below remove the crushed grain from the periphery of the rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Many of the sky-scrapers so called, are splendid monuments of the latest inventions of the century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Pierce