scavˈenger /-jər/ noun

1. A person who searches for and gathers discarded items from garbage bins, etc
2. A person who cleans the streets
3. A person or apparatus that removes waste
4. An animal that feeds on garbage or carrion
5. Someone who deals or delights in filth

To act as a scavenger

scavˈengering noun

scavˈengery noun

scavˈenging noun

scavenge pump noun

In certain internal-combustion engines, an oil pump that returns used oil from the crank case to the oil tank

scavenger hunt noun

A game, usu played outdoors, in which players are given a list of items they must acquire without resorting to buying them

scavenger¹ /skavˈin-jər/

A perversion of the name of Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower under Henry VIII, inventor of an instrument of torture known as the scavenger's, or Skevington's, or Skeffington's daughter