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Scrape: Copying content from a site, often facilitated by automated bots.

Scraper: An etching and engraving tool, triangular in section, which is used to remove burrs or unwanted roughnesses, also to slightly lower areas for subtle grading.

Scraperboard: A cardboard that is covered with plaster, white clay or chalk mixed with glue. It may be left white or black. It was introduced during the 19th century. The artist can work on it with nib-li . . . View Full Definition

Stridulating Organ: A file-and-scraper for sound production: may be variously located on chelicerae, palps, legs, abdomen and carapace.

Lateral Moraine: A moraine formed along the side of a valley glacier and composed of rock scraped off or fallen from the valley sides.

Idiophone: World music classification for instruments that produce sound from the substance of the instrument itself by being struck, blown, shaken, scraped or rubbed. The most common Western instrumen . . . View Full Definition

Vellum: The skin of a young calf used as a writing surface--the medieval equivalent of 'paper.' A technical distinction is usually made between vellum and parchment, the latter is made from goatskin . . . View Full Definition

Parchment: Animal skins that have been treated by scraping, use of lime to remove hair, and rubbing. Skins of sheep, pigs, goats have been used. For vellum those of young calves or still-born lambs are . . . View Full Definition

Surface Plate: An accurately machined and scraped flat metal piece (usually of cast iron) used to check the flatness of surfaces.

Abrasion: A superficial wound in which the topmost layers of the skin are scraped off