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turnpike shovel
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scraper
1935 quote.
See also:
road-scraper
scraper
1853
 
[The road] has been ploughed on each side, and the earth, so raised, thrown up in the centre by the means of a road-scraper or turnpike shovel, worked either with horses or oxen.