scrape 
2. To make clean or smooth by scratching, 
rasping, or planing with something sharp or 
hard. 
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round 
"bunt. Lev. xiv. 41. 
No more dams I'll make for fish, 
Nor fetch in firing 
At requiring, 
Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish. 
Sliak., Tempest, ii. 2. 187. 
3. To remove or take off by or as by scratching 
or rubbing; erase: with out, off, or the like. 
Offerings to be made at the shrine of saints, or a little 
to be scraped o/from men's superfluity for relief of poor 
people. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vi. (i. 
I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like 
the top of a rock. Ezek. xxvi. 4. 
Like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the 
Ten Commandments, but scraped one out of the table. 
Shak., M.forM.,i. 2. 9. 
4. To collect by careful effort ; gather by small 
earnings or savings : with together or up, or the 
like : as, to scrape enougli money together to buy 
a new watch. 
You shall not think, when all your own is gone, to spend 
that I have been scraping up for Michael. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, i. 4. 
What if in forty-and-two years' going about the man 
had scraped together enough to give a portion to his child ? 
Lamb, Decay of Beggars. 
I wish I could book up to you at such a moment as this, 
but I haven't got it. I send you all I can scrape together. 
C. Lever, A Rent in a Cloud, p. 172. 
To scrape acquaintance with a person, to get on tei-ms 
of acquaintance by careful effort ; insinuate one's self into 
acquaintance with a person. 
Presently afterward the sergeant arrived. ... He said 
he had scraped an acquaintance with Murphy. 
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Piinttt auslraliit. Knc-ijr. Krit., IX. 711. 5. A 
shave. [Slung.] 
scrape- (skrap), n. Same as scnijfl. 
scrape-good (skriip'gud), a. [< .sew/lei, t'., + 
obj. good.] Miserly; avaricious; stingy. 
None will be there an usurer, none will be there a 
pinch-penny, a scrape-good wretch, or churlish hardheart- 
ed refuser. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 4. (Domes.) 
scrape-penny (skrap'pen"i), n. [< scrape*, r., 
+ obj. penny.] An avaricious or 
penurious person ; a miser. 
scraper (skra'per), K. [< scrape* + 
-er*.] 1. An instrument with which 
anything is scraped. Specifically (a) 
An iron implement placed at or near the 
door of a house, on which to scrape the <, 
dirt from the soles of the shoes. 
Never clean your shoes on the scraper, but in the entry, 
or at the foot of the stairs ; ... the scraper will last longer. 
Swift, Advice to Servants (Footman). 
"Bad!" echoed Mrs. Briggs. "It's death's-door as 
you've been nigh, my dear, to the very scraper." 
Whyte Melville, White Rose, I. xix. 
(b) An apparatus drawn by oxen or horses, and used for 
scraping earth in making or repairing roads, digging cel- 
lars, canals, etc., and generally 
for raising and removing loos- 
ened soil, etc. In use the scraper 
is held with the handles slight- 
ly elevated till it scoops up its 
charge of earth which is held by 
the sides and back. The han- 
dles are then pressed downward, 
which elevates the edge so that 
it no longer scrapes; the scraper 
being then drawn along, sliding 
on the bottom, to the place of dis- 
charge, the handles are suddenly 
raised, which engages the edge with the 
To scrape down, to express disapprobation of and to 
silence by scraping the feet on the floor : as, to scrape 
down an unpopular speaker. [Eng.] 
When the debate was resumed, the tide ran so strongly 
against the accused that his friends were coughed and 
scraped doom. Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
= Syn. 1. Scrape, Scratch, Chafe, A trade. Erode. Scraping 
is done with a comparatively broad surface : as, to scrape 
the ground with a hoe ; scratching is done with that which 
is somewhat sharp : as, to scratch the ground with a rake ; 
chafing and abrading are done by pressure or friction : as, 
a chafed heel. Erode is chiefly a geological term, mean- 
ing to wear away by degrees as though by gnawing or 
biting out small amounts. Scraping generally removes or 
wears the surface ; scratching makes lines upon the sur- 
face ; chafing produces heat and finally soreness ; abrad- 
ing wears away the surface ; eroding may cut deep holes. 
Only chafe may he freely figurative. 
II. intratis. 1. To scratch, or grub in the 
ground, as fowls. Prompt. Part'., p. 450. 2. 
To rub lightly or gratingly: as, the branches 
scraped against the windows. 3. To draw back 
the foot in making obeisance : as, to bow and 
scrape. 4. To play with a bow on a stringed 
instrument: a more or less derogatory use. 
You shall scrape, and I will sing 
A scurvy ditty to a scurvy tune, 
Repine who dares. 
Massinger, Duke of Milan, ii. 1. 
The symphonious scraping of fiddles, the tinkling of 
triangles, aud the beating of tambourines. 
T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, xi. 
5. To save ; economize ; hoard penuriously. 
She scraped and scraped at pleasure, till I was almost 
starved to death. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, bcv. 
A scraping acquaintance, a mere bowing acquain- 
tance. 
scrape 1 (skrap), . [< scrape*, v. In def. 3 a 
particular use ('a tight place,' 'a squeeze'); 
but it may have arisen from the dial, scrape^, 
a snare: see scrape'*, scrap's.] \ The act or 
noise of scraping or rubbing, as with some- 
thing that roughens or removes a surface; 
hence, the effect of scraping, rubbing, or scratch- 
ing: as, a noisy scrape on a floor; the scrape of 
a pen. 2. A scraping or drawing back of the 
foot in making obeisance. 
Every moment, also, he took off his Highland-bonnet, 
and performed a bow and scrape. 
Haulharne, Seven Gables, xi. 
3. An embarrassing position, usually due to im- 
prudence and thoughtlessness. 
Trust me, Yorick, this unwary pleasantry of thine will 
sooner or later bring thee into scrapes and difficulties. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 12. 
The Naybe Musa . . . found into what a terrible scrape 
he had got ; but hunger did not leave him for a moment 
to deliberate. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 456. 
O mercy ! have they drawn poor little dear Sir Lucius 
into the scrape ? Sheridan, The Rivals, v. 1. 
When a thinker is compelled by one part of philosophy 
to contradict another part, he cannot leave the conflict- 
ing assertions standing, and throw the responsibility for 
his scrape on the arduousness of the subject. 
MUl, On Hamilton, viii. 
4. The concreted turpentine obtained by 
scraping it out from incisions in the trunks of 
Scraper, 
and sharph 
used in cleaning roads, courtyards, cow-houses, etc. (d) 
An instrument having two or 
three sides oredges.for cleaning 
the decks, masts, or planking of 
ships, etc. (e) In engraving : (1) 
A three-sided and fluted tool set 
in a wooden handle, used to re- 
move the ridge or bur raised 
by the burin or dry-point from 
scrat 
scrape-scallt (Bkr&p'gkAl), . [< scrape*, v., + 
olpj. wall.] A miser; a scrape-penny. 
That will draw unto him everything, goode, badde, 
precious, vile, regarding nothing but the gaine, a scraper, 
or serape-scall, trahax. 
Withals, Diet. (1008), p. 80. (Nares.) 
scrap-forging (skrap'for"jing), H. A piece of 
scrap-iron piled, heated, and drawn into a 
bar. 
scrap-heap (skrap'hep), n. A place in a rail- 
road yard where all old iron, such as bolts, 
nuts, odd bits of metal, and spikes, is collected. 
To go to the scrap-heap, or to be fit for the scrap- 
heap, to go to ruin, or to be fit for no useful purpose. 
scrap-house (skrap'hbuB), An establishment 
in which fish-scrap is prepared. 
scrapiana (skrap-i-an'a), ii.pl. [Pseudo-NL., 
< E. scrap* + ^i-ana.] A collection of literary 
scraps or fragments. Eclectic Rev. [Rare.] 
scraping (skra'ping), n. [< ME. scrapyngc; 
verbal n. of scrape*, v.] 1. The act of one who 
scrapes. 2. That which is scraped off from a 
substance, or is collected by scraping or rak- 
ing: generally used in the plural: as, the scrap- 
ings of the street ; pot-scrapings. 
All thy tricks 
Of cozening with a hollow cole, dust, scrapings. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. 
They [the pastry-cooks] buy also scrapings, or what re- 
mains in the butter-flrkins when emptied by the butter- 
sellers in the shops. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 208. 
3. pi. Savings; hard earnings ; hoardings. 
Trusted him with all, 
All my poor scrapings from a dozen years 
Of dust and deskwork. Tennyson, Sea Dreams. 
the 
scraper, i 
Cabinet-makers* Scrapers, 
showing forms of edges. 
(n) In iron-working, a tool 
the sides of furrows cut into the surface of a copperplate. 
(2) A three-sided tool with a lozenge-shaped point, used 
by wood-engravers to lower the edges in the light parts of 
a block in order to protect the edges in presswork. (/) In 
lithog., the angled edge in a press against which the pro- 
tected sheet is drawn by a scraping movement, and which 
gives the required impression, (g) A marble-workers' tool 
for cutting flutes and channels, (h) A stucco-workers' 
shaping-tool. (/) A 
tool used by miners 
for removing the 
dust or so-called 
"bore-meal" from 
the drill-hole, (j) 
A wood-working 
Wood-scrapers. to * witn Straight 
a. handles ; , blades : c , scraper, i </). or . a curved blade 
and with one or 
two handles, used to remove address-marks from pack- 
ing-boxes and in finishing flue woodwork. () A tool used 
by cabinet-makers in dress- 
ing off and smoothing ve- 
neers, etc. (0 A planing- 
machine in which the wood 
is forced against a stationary 
scraper or cutting-bar, (m) 
An implement of wood, with 
a thin blade shaped like an 
ordinary knife-blade, used to 
scrape sweat from horses. v ., ._. 
used after the planer to give a true face. (o)"A road- 
scraper, (p) Milit., an instrument for scraping powder 
from the bores of mortars and howitzers. It consists of a 
handle of iron, having a scraper at one end and a spoon 
for collecting dirt at the other, both made of steel, (q) A 
thumb-flint, (r) A small dredge or scoop used for taking 
oysters, scallops, etc. , and alsorfor cleaning off the beds. It 
is shaped something like a stout scythe, with a bag of iron 
ring-work on one side of the blade, (s) An instrument 
with which to clean the tongue by scraping off the fur. 
2. One who scrapes. Speciflcally^(a) Amiser; one 
whose possessions are acquired by penurious diligence 
and small savings ; a scrape-penny. 
Be thrifty but not covetous. Therefore give 
Thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due. 
Never was scraper brave man. 
G. Herbert, The Temple, The Church Porch. 
(b) A fiddler, as one who scrapes the strings. 
Out ! ye sempiternal scrapers. Cowley. 
3. pi. The scratchers or gallinaceous birds of 
the old order Rasores. Macgillivray Crumb- 
scraper, a utensil with a broad flat blade, usually of metal, 
for removing crumbs from the table-cloth. 
Scraper-bar (skra'per-bar), n. In a lithographic 
press, a piece of wood the lower edge of which 
is beveled on both sides to an edge about one 
fourth of an inch in width, beneath and against 
which the tympan of the press is dragged under 
great pressure. 
scraper-machine (skra'per-ma-shen"), . A 
form of lithographic press which gives impres- 
sion by the scraping of the protected sheet 
against an angled platen. [Eng.] 
place to which deer resort to scrape 
velvet off their antlers. 
When the leaves are falling, the nights cool, and the 
October moon is full, the lordly bucks begin their noc- 
turnal rambles over their favorite runways and scraping- 
grounds. Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 89. 
scrapingly (skra'ping-li), adv. By scraping. 
scraping-plane (skra'ping-plan), n. A plane 
having a vertical cutter or bit with an edge 
ground at an angle of 70 or 80, adjusted by a 
vertical screw, and held in place by an end- 
screw and block, used by workers in iron, steel, 
brass, ivory, and hard woods. 
scrapirc (skrap'ir), n. [Manx.] The Manx 
shearwater, Ptiffimis anglorum. 
scrap-iron (skrap'T'ern), n. Old iron, as cut- 
tings of plates and other miscellaneous frag- 
ments, accumulated for reworking. Wrought 
scrap-iron consists of cuttings, clippings, and worn-out 
small articles, such as horseshoe-nails; when carefully 
selected and rewrought, the product possesses superior 
toughness and malleability. 
scrap-metal (skrap'met"al), n. Fragments of 
any kind of metal which are of use only for 
reworking or remelting. 
scrappily (skrap'i-li), a*-. In scraps or frag- 
ments; fragmentarily; desultorily. [Colloq.] 
He [Carlyle] was still a raw, narrow-minded, scrappily 
educated Scotchman. Contemporary Rev. , XLIX. 779. 
scrappiness (skrap'i-nes), n. Scrappy charac- 
ter or condition ; fragmeutariness ; disconnect- 
edness. [Colloq.] 
The extracts are taken from the works of Dumas, Ber- 
quin, Gautier, Guizot, Victor Hugo, and the Comtesse de 
Segur ; they are well graduated, and sufficiently long to 
avoid scrappiness. 
The Academy, April 12, 1890, p. iv. of adv'ts. 
SCrapping-machine (skrap'ing-ma-shen*), n. 
A device for carrying off from a biscuit- or 
cracker-cutting machine the scraps of the sheet 
of dough from which the cakes have been" cut. 
scrapple 1 (skrap'l), v. i. [Freq. of scrape*, v.] 
To grub about. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
scrapple 2 (skrap'l), n. [Dim. of scrap*.] An 
article of food something like sausage-meat, 
made from scraps of pork, with liver, kidneys, 
etc., minced with herbs, stewed with rye- or 
corn-meal, and pressed into large cakes. When 
cold it is cut in slices and fried. It is of Pennsylvania- 
Dutch origin. 
scrappy (skrap'i), a. [< scrap + -y*.] Con- 
sisting of scraps; made up of odds and ends; 
fragmentary. [Colloq.] 
The balanced sing-song neatness of his speech . . . was 
the more conspicuous from its contrast with good Mr. 
Brooke's scrappy slovenliness. 
George Eliot, Middleman*, ii. 
scrat 1 (skrat), v. [Also, transposed, scart; < 
ME. scratten, orig. *scartcn, scratch : see scart* 
and shear. Cf. scratch*, scrattle.] I. trans. To 
scratch. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
I will scrat out those eyes 
That taught him first t.. lust. 
Gascoifme, Philomene (steele Glas, etc., cd. Arber), p. 105. 
