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Scra′per-press.


Lithography.) The old form of lithographic press, in which the stone and the paper for the impression, with a backing of parchment or paper, was run beneath a gate or straightedge pressed violently upon the object passing beneath. It is now substituted by the roller-press.

Excavator on Railway-car.

Scraping-plane.

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