What is "scrapers"

Usage examples of "scrapers".

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.

Although Joe was nearly six and growing fast and promising to be big made, which was, in a way, a guarantee of his not being picked up by the scrapers, she still felt uneasy when he was out of her sight for any length of time.

Most people detach blades from a prepared core to make into other tools -- chisels, knives, scrapers, or points for smaller spears.

They were shaved and whittled into rough cylinders with scrapers and knives that peeled off long curled slivers, then they were rubbed smooth with sandstone kept wet to be more abrasive.

And with sufficient skill you could make a wide variety of tools this way: axes, yes, but also spear points, cutters, scrapers, punchers.