What is "scrappers"

Usage examples of "scrappers".

I'm the biggest and the fightingest man on Bear Creek, which is famed far and wide for its ring-tailed scrappers, but this wildman shore give me my hands full.

Heavily damaged after surviving attacks by Japanese aircraft during convoy duty, she was returned to the Canton Lines after the war and served briefly on short runs from Shanghai to Hong Kong, until the spring of 1948, when she was to be sold to the scrappers in Singapore.

The only records I could find on the Princess Dou Wan suggested that she was lost on the way to the scrappers at Singapore.

Then in the late fall of nineteen forty-eight she was taken out of service and sent to the scrappers hi Singapore for breaking up.

Hunt's final mention came from a Hong Kong maritime register, a short paragraph stating that the Princess Dou Wan had failed to arrive at the scrappers in Singapore.

But since the Princess Dou Wan had been stripped of her furnishings and fixtures in preparation for her final voyage to the scrappers in Singapore, Kung Hui managed to cram over a thousand crates into the cargo holds and empty passenger staterooms.

She became the Princess Yung Tai, which had been broken up at the scrappers a short time before.

She told of v' iting her future husband on board the Princess while the ship was being stripped for the voyage to the scrappers and how hundreds of crates were delivered to the dock and loaded aboard in the dead of night.

A tired old liner doomed for the scrappers at Singapore would not have made an ideal transport to move China's national treasures to a secret location, he thought.

In-between the dark brown trees that like sky scrappers tower upwards hundreds of meters, Tarqwa like a wayward tourist looks around casually seemingly without a care in the world.

However, the sight of gold brown, and gray sky scrappers with shuttles zooming around them like bees, stretching upward as if trying to touch the heavens pulls Logan's attention through the wrap around glass window.

The would-be scrappers were speedily induced to get down on all fours.