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Scra′per.

A tool or implement for removing material by a paring action. The term has many applications.

Wood-scrapers.

Cabinet-maker's scrapers.


1. (Wood-working.) A steel plate, frequently made of a piece of saw-plate, with a square edge made sharp-angled, and burnished to raise a small bur or wire edge. The edge is used in giving a final dressing to wooden surfaces, veneers, etc. See Fig. 4687. It is held at an angle of 60°. manufacture up to that point. As a process, scouring comes between weaving and burling. The process is sometimes termed braying, pounding being the action.


2. (Metal.) A process in the cleaning of ironplate for tinning; or of metal in general for plating by electro-deposition or otherwise.


3. (Hydraulics.) The cleaning of a channel or sewer by a flush of water. See flushing.

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