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scraper

American  
[skray-per] / ˈskreɪ pər /

noun

  • scrapers
    plural
  1. a person or thing that scrapes.

  2. any of various tools or utensils for scraping.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of scraper

First recorded in 1545–55; scrape + -er 1


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Maybe a month after the web came into existence, there was a scraper for the web.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

A robot slurry scraper travels up and down the cowshed at regular intervals, pushing any manure through the slatted floor into the vast storage pit below.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Next was understanding how to use the heavy thing: how to grasp it, how to cut with it, how to use it as a bench scraper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

Bojin involves the same tool as gua sha, another TCM technique that uses a flat, smooth-edged scraper usually made of jade or stone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

Second week of December and I’ve been using my ice scraper every morning this week.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

If you’re putting something on the web and you’re surprised by scrapers, like, I just don’t have a whole ton of sympathy for your position.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

He builds scrapers, databases, interfaces, and other tools that are needed in the course of pursuing and telling a story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

The financial hub is famous for its dramatic skyline of sky scrapers set against a picturesque harbour, many of which are home to residents as well as as banks and commercial offices.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

So when the company began incorporating more A.I. models in earnest, those bots and scrapers relied on a system that had not been geared toward prioritizing healthy and reliable sites for years at that point.

From Slate ● May 16, 2024

In 1872 one such seeker—Charles Abbott, a New Jersey physician— found stone arrowheads, scrapers, and axheads on his farm in the Delaware Valley.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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