scraper

Plural: scrapers

Noun

• A tool used for scraping or removing material from a surface.
• any of various hand tools for scraping
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• A hoe.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• A tool used by engravers.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
• An instrument with which anything is scraped.
• Clipping of bellyscraper.
• One who scrapes horns.
• One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
• One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
• A cocked hat.
• A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
• A freshwater fish of the carp family, genus Capoeta.

Examples

• He was a master SCRAPER of points, always finding obscure hooks on the board.