Plural of scraper

regular plural

The plural of scraper is scrapers.

Forms of scraper

Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 218
Children also enjoy walking on a cobblestone street while looking for boot scrapers, gossip mirrors and historical artifacts.2008, “Field Trips”, in Kathie Meizner, Lisa Nevans Locke, Meg Thale, editors, Going Places with Children in Washington, DC, 17th edition…. From the entry gossip mirror
Sky reachers maybe, not sky scrapers.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 232. From the entry Atlanta
Small arrowheads, small elongated scrapers, and microblades have been found in the Heiliut’uho Valley in Heng-shan Hsien, in what may be a nonceramic context.[1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162. From the entry Hengshan
Rotary driven steel scrapers are normally employed to remove loose scale from C or low alloy steel pipe that has been hot bent.1965, Corrosion Abstracts - Volume 4, page 71. From the entry turbanize

noun An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
noun An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
noun An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.

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