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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 216 As about this present question he taketh in a maner al out of Augustines boke of repentance, which is foolishly botched of good & bad by som scraper together.

1607 S. Hieron Minoritie of Saints in Wks. (1620) I. 35 The rakers and scrapers of this world,..as though there were no God in heauen to make prouision for them, lay about them, leauing no vile vngodly oppressing courses vnassayed.

1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple xxvi Never was scraper brave man.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scraper, a miser; a man intent on getting money; a scrapepenny.

1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men III. xlii. 142 Everywhere there are scrapers and scatterers; the scrapers are few, and the scatterers are many.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 11 Not in the spoile of apparel, robes, and trash, Least he be accounted an vnruly scraper, as too many now a dayes be.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 160 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hugh Tirell his fellow scraper, tooke from the poore Priests at Armagh, a great brasse panne.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Escarvador A scraper, Scalptor.

1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 125 He was both painter and scraper in mezzotinto.

1788 Ld. R. Seymour in Murray's Mag. 1 484 A Carrot Scraper in St. James' Market, who sleeps in a little Kennel.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 943 After which it [parchment] is transferred to the scraper. This workman employs here an edge tool of the same shape as the fleshing-knife, but larger and sharper.

1611 G. Chapman May-day iv. i Strike vp, Scrapers.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋16 Mr. Bickerstaff..summons all his Disciples, whether..Toasts, Smarts,..Musicians or Scrapers, to make their Appearance at the Playhouse.

1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan (1841) 140 ‘Year!’ responded the astonished scraper of cat-gut.

1899 W. Besant Orange Girl i. i. 24 A common scraper on a crowd like a one-legged man with a Jack in the Green.

1791 Bee 19 Jan. 103 Gart the puir scraper tyne his feet.

1869 Public Opinion 19 June (Farmer) The beard and moustache, which the sailors in the Royal Navy will be permitted to wear, thereby doing away with the objection that blue-jackets have to the scraper.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Scraper or rubber, scalprum. Scrapynge knyffe, scalprum.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Bookbinding Manner of gilding books on the edges.—The book, being put in the press, between two boards, is scraped with a knife called a scraper.

1849 Weale's Dict. Terms Scraper, a piece of iron used to take out the pulverized matter which remains in a hole when bored previous to blasting.

1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 203 Over which the skin..is laid with the hair side up; and he then scrapes the surface strongly from above downward, with the scraper.

1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 14 I hated scraping ham—that was a job I did bar; for in the first place, it isn't easy, and the next, you are more likely to scrape your knuckles with the scraper than the ham.

1895 Stores' Price List Artists' Scrapers. 2½ in. Steel Blade, Ebony Handle.

1895 Stores' Price List Steel pipe bowl scraper.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 80 Cleaned with brushes, or Scrapers if barnicled.

1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Scraper, a triangular iron instrument for scraping the deck.

1747 Sculptura-Hist.-Techn. 225 Take a Burnisher, or Scraper, and burnish that Part of the Plate.

1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. Scraper, an engraver's tool for removing burrs.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 71 The so-called ‘scrapers’..are oblong stones, rounded at one end, which is brought to a bevelled edge by a series of small blows.

1872 J. Evans Anc. Stone Implements xiii. 268 One of the simple forms into which flakes are susceptible of being readily converted has, in consequence of its similarity in character to a stone implement in use among the Esquimaux for scraping skins and other purposes, received the name of a ‘scraper’, or, to use the term first, I believe, employed by the late Mons. E. Lartet, a grattoir.

1900 Archæol. Æliana 22 83 A ‘thumbflint’ or ‘scraper’ and also a large rough flint core were found by a tenant of one of the glebe farms.

1909 P. A. Wells & J. Hooper Mod. Cabinet Work v. 72 A carefully sharpened scraper frequently permits of about twelve resharpenings in all.

1924 H. G. Phillips Cabinetmaking i. 14 A very fine shaving is taken off with the scraper, which leaves the surface ready to be glasspapered.

1970 Canad. Antiques Collector Jan. 27/2 The only satisfactory method is the use of a cabinet scraper.

1977 Reader's Digest Bk. Do-it-Yourself Skills & Techniques ii. 77/1 Cabinet scrapers give a satin-smooth finish to hardwood.

1977 Reader's Digest Bk. Do-it-Yourself Skills & Techniques ii. 77/1 If a scraper becomes hot and produces dust instead of shavings during use, it needs resharpening.

1953 J. G. Moore in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 396/1 The scraper, a corrugated stick across which is rubbed a plain stick [in pocomania and revivalist services].

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) v. 53 The typically African instruments, such as drums, gourd rattles, and scrapers.

1958 E. Borneman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 275 One of the many..indigenous African string instruments, hand drums, scrapers, shakers and gong-gong.

1961 A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages i. 27 Scrapers have survived into modern times, for instance in the folk music of Venezuela.

1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 32/2 Most of the instrumental types described are of very ancient origin indeed, drums, rattles, and scrapers being the commonest instruments of primitive man.

1815 T. B. Hazard Diary (1930) 442/2 Delivered C. R. Potter p[ai]r Scrapers and a Chain to hich horseis with.

1823 New Eng. Farmer II. 9 The most expeditious, effectual, and economic mode of making a drain would undoubtedly be to use oxen, and a scraper or ox-shovel, as it is sometimes called.

1840 H. S. Tanner Canals & Rail Roads U.S. 259 Scraper, a machine drawn by horses or oxen, for excavating trenches, for canals, rail-roads, &c.

1884 Longman's Mag. Feb. 414 Subsequent snows are removed by means of a ‘scraper’, a kind of scoop upon wheels which is drawn over the ice by horses.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 588/1 A horse scraping machine which delivers the mud at the side is also used, the blades of the scrapers being mounted obliquely.

1930 Engineering 7 Mar. 306/1 There are three of these scrapers in each warehouse, their function being to drag down the potash from the several heaps into the central longitudinal opening in the floor.

1939 C. W. Towne Her Majesty Montana 120 Abolishing the back-breaking labor of mucking, power driven scrapers and mechanical mucking machines are now usual.

1958 Engineering 14 Feb. 219 For outside work the three most important types of machine—all rubber tyred—are the self-propelled scrapers, mechanical shovels and the cranes.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 996/2 The scraper is the dominant tool in highway construction.

1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1857) §2464 The scraper may be described as a broad hoe, of treble the usual size and strength, used in cleaning roads or court-yards, and sometimes in cleaning grassy surfaces.

1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1857) §3133 The Dutch hoe is a good road and lawn scraper.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Scraper,..a long hoe for cleansing roads of mud.

1909 Daily News 22 Dec. 6/1 There were some men out with scrapers, but..until late in the afternoon, pedestrians had to wade through..the.. streets ankle deep in slush.

1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 247 Scraper, a small dredge. Chiefly spoken of with reference to scallops.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 571.