Definitionn. any of various hand tools for scraping
Last update: July 10, 2015
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Many beetles make a hissing or chirping sound by rubbing a "scraper," formed by a sharp edge or prominence on some part of their exoskeleton, over a "file" formed by a number of fine ridges situate on an adjacent region. [Please select]
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The hair verged on a fiery red, the nose was a real sky-scraper and the upper lip was almost proboscidian in its length. [Please select]
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~ Where no well-defined runs are visible in orchards, artificial ones may be made with a narrow drag or scraper. [Please select]
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Scraper: the hardened portion of the inner margin of the tegmina in crickets used in producing the song. [Please select]
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This will quickly show where the high spots are, and the file and scraper are then used to cut away the metal. [Please select]
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The team is attached to the scraper by means of the rope passing through the pulley at the top of the incline. [Please select]
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The trip holding the scraper while dumping is operated from the ground. [Please select]
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The scraper load falls onto an inclined screen which takes out the sand and delivers the pebbles into the wagon. [Please select]
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The gravel was dumped near the mixer and a team hitched to a drag scraper delivered the gravel alongside the mixer. [Please select]
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The ascent from the road to the château was much like climbing a fire-escape to the top of a New York sky-scraper, but we earned the right to cry "Excelsior." [Please select]
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Above me rose the great steel gates, standing ajar and giving one the impression of an opening in the Great Wall of China or of a sky-scraper about to be swung lightly aside. [Please select]
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