The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrap \Scrap\ (skr[a^]p), n. [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t.]
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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
I have no materials -- not a scrap.
--De Quincey. 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.
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pl. Same as Scrap iron, below. Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap. Scrap iron.
Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap.
Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also foundry scrap, or cast scrap.
WordNet
n. iron to be melted again and reworked
Wikipedia
Scrap Iron may refer to:
- Scrap, the recycling of metals including iron
- Scrap-Iron, a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Scrap Iron (Transformers), a fictional character from Transformers: Cybertron
- Phil Garner, a baseball player nicknamed Scrap Iron
- Scrap Iron (film), a 1921 American film directed by and starring Charles Ray
Usage examples of "scrap iron".
Swathed in degraded mourning garments, frames, which only a little while before were scrap iron and then, resurrected as skeletons, were invested with noisy or soundless mechanisms and submitted to various mechanical and acoustical tests, now stand in weeping circles on the bare-scraped floor.
The boys looked over at the huge spread of scrap iron, covering several acres.
Twenty-five flatcars, each loaded with twenty thousand pounds of scrap iron, gathered momentum on the slight downgrade that ran east toward the Colorado-Kansas border.
Another squeal of metal and she realized that the half ton of scrap iron forged into sharp beak, claws and wings of an ancient beast of prey was swooping down, plummeting from thirty feet up in the branches of a live oak to rip her to pieces with talons forged from the teeth of a derelict harrow.
All the jokes we made up till last year about them being little bucktoothed guys with funny glasses flying planes made out of tinfoil and scrap iron—.
They are putting scrap iron in the cases, and stealing the guns, the woman whispered.
Within that barrel was another, and between them were scrap iron, rocks, and pieces of hard pottery.