DCHP-1 Online
scraper † 
n. See 1935 quote.
See also: road-scraper slip (def. 2) slip-scraper slush-scraper
- 1826 (1832) Along the "street" they are getting them up, and ploughing the sides, and with a kind of large shovel, having a handle, (called a scraper) and a yoke of oxen, the dirt is drawn into the centre and rounded, which is called "turnpiking."
- 1903 I was holding the scraper for Jock, the drover, that week. . . .
- 1953 There was a bulldozer at his Belle Creek camp, but it needed new bearings. He put some horse scrapers to work.
- 1953 They strolled eastward over the newly-graded embankment. Nearby, a siding was being built in earth, and scrapers were at work, great open steel scoops with sharp, flat mouths drawn by two horses; behind projected long, stout handles so that the mouth could be tilted and bite into the soil, when, full to the muzzle, they were dragged up and tipped on the grade.
- 1959 There was a thin layer of darkish soil at the top and under it an anaemic-looking white sand as far down as the mule scrapers had gone.
- 1826 (1832) Along the "street" they are getting them up, and ploughing the sides, and with a kind of large shovel, having a handle, (called a scraper) and a yoke of oxen, the dirt is drawn into the centre and rounded, which is called "turnpiking."