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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scraper \Scrap"er\, n.
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An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically:
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
(Naut.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
(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.
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One who scrapes. Specifically:
One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"instrument for scraping," 1550s, agent noun from scrape (v.). From 1560s as "miser, money-grubber;" 1610s as "fiddler;" 1792 as "barber."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instrument with which anything is scraped. 2 An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it. 3 An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc. 4 An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship. 5 In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression. 6 One who scrapes horns. 7 One who plays awkwardly on a violin. 8 One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
WordNet
n. any of various hand tools for scraping
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Wikipedia
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Scraper - Aurignacian - Muséum of Toulouse
]] In archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools that were used either for hideworking or woodworking purposes . Whereas this term is often used for any unifacially flaked stone tool that defies classification, most lithic analysts maintain that the only true scrapers are defined on the base of use-wear, and usually are those that were worked on the distal ends of blades—i.e., " end scrapers" or grattoirs. Other scrapers include the so-called " side scrapers" or racloirs, which are made on the longest side of a flake, and notched scrapers, which have a cleft on either side that may have been used to attach them to something else.
Scrapers are typically formed by chipping the end of a flake of stone in order to create one sharp side and to keep the rest of the sides dull to facilitate grasping it. Most scrapers are either circle or blade-like in shape. The working edges of scrapers tend to be convex, and many have trimmed and dulled lateral edges to facilitate hafting. One important variety of scraper is the thumbnail scraper, a scraper shaped much like its namesake. This scraper type is common at Paleo-Indian sites in North America. Scrapers are one of the most varied lithic tools found at archaeological sites. Due to the vast array of scrapers there are many typologies that scrapers can fall under, including tool size, tool shape, tool base, the number of working edges, edge angle, edge shape, and many more.
A scraper is a kitchen implement made of metal, plastics (such as polyethylene, nylon, or polypropylene), wood, rubber or silicone rubber. In practice, one type of scraper is often interchanged with another or with a spatula (thus scrapers are often called spatulas) for some of the various uses.
Scraper was a hardcore punk band from the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. Influenced by a variety of Punk rock and Hardcore punk bands, Scraper were likened to Snuff, Leatherface, China Drum, Hüsker Dü and even Fast Eddie period Motörhead. Scraper became popular throughout the latter half of the 1990s with strong followings around Birmingham, London and Cardiff. Towards the end of the 1990s Scraper renamed themselves "Turnbull ACs". Scraper's 1996 album "Built with Hate" received 4 and a half out of 5 in Terroriser Magazine and 4 out of 5 in Kerrang!.
A scraper is an informal term to describe a modified American-made luxury/family car, usually a General Motors model from the 1980s to current vehicles, typically enhanced with after-market rims. Scrapers are popular in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, usually associated with the hyphy music and lifestyle movement. An example of hyphy is shown in the E-40 lyrics "sittin' in my scraper watching Oakland gone wild". A scraper is a general description and can refer to a number of different models cars. Popular models include the Buick Regal and LeSabre, Pontiac Bonneville, Buick Century, Oldsmobile Delta 88, Buick Riviera, Buick Reatta, Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Pontiac Grand Prix, Lexus SC, Chevrolet Caprice Classic, and Chevrolet Impalas, as well as full size conversion vans such as the GMC Vandura. Supercharged automobiles are particularly sought after due to their high performance.
Similar to donks from the south, the cars are highly customized, with large custom rims, custom paint (two-tone is popular as of 2008) and custom interior to match the paint, loud audio (called slaps) and televisions. What makes Scrapers different from Donks is that Donks are typically fifth generation Chevrolet Impalas and Caprices, fourth generation Cadillac Coupe de Villes and third generation Monte Carlos. Donks are usually V8 engine, rear wheeled drive, full sized General Motors sedans and coupes of the 70's and 80's. Scrapers on the other hand, are typically late 80's and 90's midsized, front wheel drive, six cylinder General Motors sedans.
The trend of customizing these cars were made popular by African American youth. Scraper cars have also inspired the scraper bike movement.
Usage examples of "scraper".
Fresno Scrapers left Filip Pavlovich Tupikov wondering what they really needed Bernie for.
He finally pulled his eyes away from the scraper and looked at Filip Pavlovich.
Ehomba, who was an honorable man, made his way with his son back out of the celebrated lost city, whose riches lay not in its fabulous trappings but in the learning it held, and back to the modest house by the sea, where as he had sworn to his friend Simna ibn Sind he was no more a renowned sorcerer than any man or woman of his village, be they herder of cattle, hewer of wood, thresher of grain or scraper of hides.
She nicked out flat stones to make a deeper well for fat for lamps, and she dried new moss wicks, knapped a new set of knives, scrapers, saws, borers, and axes, searched the seashore for shells to make spoons, ladles, and small dishes.
Other men cut leather shapes from hides stretched on the ground, braided thongs into ropes, worked with bronze chisel and adze and stone scraper on the growing frame of a chariot, knapped stone into everyday tools for tasks too mundane to rate the precious bronze.
The walls of the small room were covered with various cutting instruments, scrapers, cleaners, veiners, nets, and sieves.
I am tempted to take Silvia and flee to Stick Around to observe the progress on my house, to watch Clifford Stone and his restorationists make love to it with their scrapers, their sandpaper, their paint remover, and their fancy wallpapering equipment.
Mincopics of the Andaman Islands manufacture whet-stones or scrapers almost identical with those of Thenay, and by the same process of using fire to split the stones into the requisite size and shape.
The scraper of the Esquimaux and the Andaman islanders is but an enlarged and improved edition of the Miocene scraper.
Shaker pegs upon which to hang coats, a heavy wrought iron boot scraper, and big standing bootjack and a long, massive oak table.
But an hour later, a strange wailing arose from several tall square towers planted all round the city, and a single gun was fired from the heights of the Kasba, and then all of the slaves put their scrapers down and began to wander off down the beach in groups of two or three.
My tools are a blunt saw, a blunter ax, a wooden spade, two great augers, that I believe had a hand in bringing us here, but have not been any use to us since, a center-bit, two planes, a hammer, a pair of pincers, two brad-awls, three gimlets, two scrapers, a plumb-lead and line, a large pair of scissors, and you have a small pair, two gauges, a screw-driver, five clasp-knives, a few screws and nails of various sizes, two small barrels, two bags, two tin bowls, two wooden bowls, and the shell of this turtle, and that is a very good soup-tureen, only we have no meat to make soup with.
Applying careful pressure with the knobby, rounded end of the legbone, he broke off only the sharpest edge of both lengths, which dulled them only slightly but, more important, strengthened them, so this piece could be used as a scraper to shape and smooth a piece of wood or bone.
The famous French anthropologist Armand de Quatrefages said the tools included scrapers, borers, and lance points.
After which, in a little house close by the more solid building in which Sulla lived, he hovered anxiously between cauldrons and toiling scrapers, insisting upon personally inspecting every carcass and every kidney, insisting that he personally test the temperature of all the water, measuring meticulously and driving the servants to the point of exasperation with his fusses and clucks and tches.