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Hand tools

  • Card scraper
    Card scraper
    A card scraper is a woodworking shaping and finishing tool. It is used to manually remove small amounts of material and excels in tricky grain areas where hand planes would cause tear out. Card scrapers are most suitable for working with hardwoods, and can be used instead of sandpaper...

    , cabinet scraper or scraper, a tool for scraping wood
  • Hand scraper
    Hand scraper
    A hand scraper is a single-edged tool used to scrape metal from a surface. This may be required where a surface needs to be trued, corrected for fit to a mating part, needs to retain oil , or even to give a decorative finish.Surface plates were traditionally made by scraping...

    , a single-edged tool used to scrape metal from a surface
  • Scraper (archaeology)
    Scraper (archaeology)
    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...

    , a stone tool

Machines

  • Fresno scraper
    Fresno Scraper
    The Fresno Scraper is a machine used for constructing canals and ditches in sandy soil.It was invented in 1883 by the Scottish immigrant and entrepreneur James Porteous who, having worked with farmers in Fresno, California, had recognised the dependence of the Central San Joaquin Valley on...

    , powered by an external tractor which pulls it
  • Wheel tractor-scraper
    Wheel tractor-scraper
    In civil engineering, a wheel tractor-scraper is a piece of heavy equipment used for earthmoving.The rear part has a vertically moveable hopper with a sharp horizontal front edge. The hopper can be hydraulically lowered and raised. When the hopper is lowered, the front edge cuts into the soil or...

    , a piece of heavy equipment used for earth-moving

Computing

  • Blog scraping
    Blog scraping
    Blog scraping is the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software. The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers.Scraping is copying a...

    , the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, searching for and copying content
  • Screen scraping, a program which captures information from a display not intended for processing by computers
  • Tracker scrape
    Tracker scrape
    A scrape, or tracker scrape, is a request sent by a BitTorrent client to a tracker. A request is sent, connection to the tracker is established, information is exchanged, then the connection is closed...

    , request sent to a BitTorrent tracker
  • Web scraping
    Web scraping
    Web scraping is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites...

    , the actions of a website crawler which assembles content from web pages
    • Scraper site
      Scraper site
      A scraper site is a spam website that copies all of its content from other websites using web scraping.In the last few years scraper sites have proliferated at an amazing rate for spamming search engines...

      , a website created by web scraping

Music and audio

  • Pick slide
    Pick slide
    A pick slide or pick scrape is a guitar technique most often performed in the rock, punk or metal music genres. The technique is executed by holding the edge of the pick against any of the three or four wound strings and moving it along the string...

    , also called pick scrape, an electric guitar playing/sound effect technique
  • Rake and scrape, a type of Caribbean music
  • Scraper (instrument), a musical instrument
  • Scraping (album), a 2002 rock music album by Calexico
  • Scrape flutter, in sound recording, high-frequency flutter over 100Hz
  • Scrape
    Scrape (Blue Stahli song)
    - Licenced appearance :"Scrape" is used in a TV spot for the film Armoured."Scrape" is also used in the hit video game Dead Rising 2 in the Psychopath boss fight against ....

    , a 2009 non-album single by Blue Stahli
    Blue Stahli
    Blue Stahli is a Detroit, Michigan-based Electronic rock project that was created by multi-instrumentalist Bret Autrey.-Bio:After releasing material under the name Voxis, Autrey was approached by FiXT label head Klayton in 2007 to move to Detroit and record in residence at Celldweller Studios...


Other

  • Scrape, a type of bird nest
  • Cloud scraper, birds of the genus Cisticola
  • Scraper (kitchen)
    Scraper (kitchen)
    There are several types of kitchen implements which are termed scrapers. They can be made of metal, plastics such as polyethylene, nylon, or polypropylene, wood, rubber or silicone rubber...

    , a cooking tool
  • Gourd scraper, also called a pua, a stick used for playing the güiro
    Güiro
    The güiro is a Latin-American percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick or tines along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. The güiro is commonly used in Latin-American music, and plays a key role...

    , an instrument consisting of a hollow gourd
  • Scraper, Oklahoma
    Scraper, Oklahoma
    Scraper is a census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 475 at the 2000 census. The community was named for Captain Archibald Scraper of the 2nd Regiment, Indian Home Guard.-Geography:...

    , a census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States
  • Scraper (car)
    Scraper (car)
    A scraper is an informal term to describe a modified American-made luxury/family car, usually a General Motors model from the 1980's to current vehicles, typically enhanced with after-market rims. Scrapers are popular in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, usually associated with the...

    , a modified American-made family car characterized by large rims and extensive personalization
  • Scratchboard
    Scratchboard
    Scratchboard or scraperboard is a technique where drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink. Scratchboard can also be made with several layers of multi-colored clay, so the pressure exerted on the...

    , also called a scraperboard, a technique where drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink
  • Skyscraper
    Skyscraper
    A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

    , a building over 10 stories tall
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