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home scrap

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noun

Metallurgy.

  1. scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.

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He started bringing home scrap metal from his job sites and twisting and welding the pieces into playful characters in his garage.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2015

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