SCRAPER

Scraper

In archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools that were used either for hideworking or woodworking purposes. Whereas this term is often used for any unifacially flaked stone tool that defies classification, most lithic analysts maintain that the only true scrapers are defined on the base of use-wear, and usually are those that were worked on the distal ends of blades—i.e., "end scrapers" or grattoirs. Other scrapers include the so-called "side scrapers" or racloirs, which are made on the longest side of a flake, and notched scrapers, which have a cleft on either side that may have been used to attach them to something else.

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scraper

Noun

  1. An instrument with which anything is scraped.
  2. An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
  3. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
  4. An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
  5. In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
  6. One who scrapes horns.
  7. One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
  8. One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.


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