scraper

IPA: skrˈeɪpɝ

An instrument with which anything is scraped.
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
A hoe.
A tool used by engravers.
(archaeology) A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
One who scrapes horns.
One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
(archaic, colloquial) A cocked hat.
(computing) A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
A freshwater fish of the carp family, genus Capoeta.
Clipping of bellyscraper. [(construction, mining) A piece of earthmoving equipment used to level land and build roads. A heavy equipment machinery with a blade on the bottom and a hopper on top, that can carry, scrape-up, and lay-down material.]

Examples of "scraper" in Sentences

A scraper is a better alternative to a snow shovel.
The true sky-scraper is beautiful, and it is beautiful in so far as it is true.
The true sky-scraper is beautiful — and this is the reluctant admission of a man who dislikes humanity-festering cities.
There is a fine old Doric beauty, too, about the padlock and scraper, which is strictly in keeping with the general effect.
A scraper is a type of blog that takes content from other people’s site via feeds and uses it, sometimes within Fair Use and often not.
"Singing" insects, such as crickets, utter sounds called stridulations by rubbing the edge of one forewing called a scraper against a hard bumpy surface called a file on the opposite forewing.