scraper

One that scrapes, especially a tool for scraping off paint or other adherent matter such as ice on a windshield.

An instrument with which anything is scraped.

An apparatus drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals, etc., and generally for raising and removing loosened soil, etc. In use the scraper is held with the handles slightly elevated till it scoops up its charge of earth, which is held by the sides and back. The handles 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 discharge, the handles are suddenly and sharply raised, which engages the edge with the ground, and the draft then turns the scraper bottom-side upward, dumping the contents.

A large broad hoe used in cleaning roads, courtyards, cow-houses, etc.

An instrument having two or three sides or edges, for cleaning the decks, masts, or planking of ships, etc.

In engraving: A three-sided and fluted tool set in a wooden handle, used to remove the ridge or bur raised by the burin or dry-point from the sides of furrows cut into the surface of a copperplate. 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 lithography, the angled edge in a press against which the protected sheet is drawn by a scraping movement, and which gives the required impression.

A marble-workers’ tool for cutting flutes and channels.

A stucco-workers’ shaping-tool.

A tool used by miners for removing the dust or so-called “bore-meal” from the drill-hole.