(n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.
(n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
(n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
(n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
(n.) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.
(n.) One who scrapes.
(n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
(n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(2) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.
(3) An endocervical swab, cytologic scraper, and endocervical cytobrush were used to prepare simultaneous full-slide smears for immunofluorescence for the diagnosis of cervical chlamydial infection.
(4) Sky-scrapers are the Bentleys and Range Rovers of the building world.
(5) Among them were stone axes, stone hand axes, fish spears and hooks made of bone or horn, stone blades, stone scrapers and stone drills believed to have been used in daily life, and charcoal and sites of furnaces used for cooking.
(6) A plastic re-imagined version of a Roman horsehair body scraper, it means you don't have to use a towel, which therefore saves 237‑310 kWh per year in electricity by minimising washing.
(7) Most of the false negative results were obtained with the cytologic scraper.
(8) A simple scraper for rapid and quantitative transfer of zones on thin-layer chromatograms to liquid scintillation counting vials is described.
(9) The data, which was compiled from an official register using a web scraper built for ScraperWiki , showed that contributions for which a cash value was given were up more than £200,000 on the previous year, which was the first time the Guardian analysed this data , and 60 more groups received some form of sponsorship or donations.
(10) Asked by Newsweek Europe to state which individuals he would allow, if empowered, to migrate into the country, Farage headed straight to the bottom of the barrel with his scraper: “People who do not have HIV, to be frank.
(11) However, new evidence provided by the deciduous dentition of Avahi suggests that the traditional interpretations are correct, specifically: (1) the lateral teeth in the dental scraper of Indriidae are homologous with the incisors of Lemuriadae and Lorisidae, not the canines; (2) the dental formula for the lower deciduous teeth of indriids is 2.1.3; (3) the dental formula for the lower permanent teeth of indriids is 2.0.2.3; and (4) decrease in number of incisors during primate evolution was usually in the sequence I3, then I2, then I1.
(12) Because they are mostly endocervical in origin, they may not be detected cytologically if scrapers or cotton swabs are used to sample the endocervical canal.
(13) A bottom-scraper and flushing system permitted periodic removal of solid wastes.
(14) Tenants are demanding "austere and efficient" buildings that were more likely to be "ground-scrapers" than high-rises, he said.
(15) A callous scraper devised by us was found effective.
(16) "Check the weather and traffic reports before heading out and pack plenty of warm clothing, food, water, de-icer, ice scraper and a fully-charged mobile.
(17) An improved explanation method was developed which takes advantage of the tenuous attachment of OSE to underlying tissues: the surface epithelium was scraped off the ovarian surface with a rubber scraper, generating epithelial fragments which produced monolayers in culture, with little contamination by other cell types.
(18) The most satisfactory results were obtained when these surfaces were treated by method 3.Pig carcasses were shown to be contaminated by an improperly cleaned black scraper.
(19) It said: "Drivers should do the basic checks on your car and pack the essential winter kit including, warm clothing, food, water, de-icer, ice scraper and a fully-charged mobile in case you run into difficulty."
(20) Likewise the remaining sites (dehairing machine, black scraper and table) were least efficiently cleaned by method 1.
Squeegee
Definition:
(n.) Same as Squilgee.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 11 cases anterior capsules remained clear and in 9 of them lens epithelial cells had been thoroughly removed up to the equator using a Terry squeegee.
(2) He also cracked down on winos and street vagrants; if squeegee merchants had existed, no doubt they would have been added to the list.
(3) He saw Gerhard Richter ’s squeegee paintings and thought, “Who makes the musical equivalent of this?” He finished a – brilliant, Google it – PhD on the cultural history of loud sound between 1880-1930 and fed the research into his live shows, using decibels alone to induce “some kind of secular God effect through sonic power” (a temporary dissolution of the self, that is, through sheer volume).
(4) Pushing shit with a squeegee all day long, knowing that as soon as I left a pen it would start to fill up again, is not a formula for job satisfaction.
(5) Anderson devised a gadget that had a rubber-bladed squeegee on the outside of the windscreen which was connected to a handle on the inside by a spindle through the top of the window.
(6) Cab drivers, strip-club operators, jaywalkers, squeegee men, graffiti artists, street vendors, defecating dogs, Tina Brown and Hillary Clinton have all been excoriated by Mayor Rudy Giuliani in his determination to improve Gotham's quality of life.
(7) Talking of surrendering comfort, you might also carry a Bodyflik – aka the human squeegee (bodyflick.co.uk).