SCRAP-:BOOK:, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:

Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you;

Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame;

Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace -- Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face --

Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

SCRAP

Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.

[But what was it?]

(1994-12-15)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
 

Scrap \Scrap\ (skr[a^]p), n. [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t.]

1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. [1913 Webster]

I have no materials -- not a scrap. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

2. Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract. [1913 Webster]

3. pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps. [1913 Webster]

4. pl. Same as Scrap iron, below. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap.

Scrap iron.
   (a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap.
   (b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also foundry scrap, or cast scrap. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Shrap \Shrap\, Shrape \Shrape\, n. [Cf. Scrap, and Scrape.]

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.]

[Obs.]

--Bp. Bedell. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

scrap adj : disposed of as useless; "waste paper" [syn: cast-off(a), discarded, junked, scrap(a), waste]

noun

1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, chip, flake, fleck]
2: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn: rubbish, trash]
3: a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left"
4: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, combat]

verb

1: dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" [syn: trash, junk]
2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, argufy, altercate]
3: make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts" [also: scrapping, scrapped]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Scrap \Scrap\ (skr[a^]p), n. [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t.]

1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

I have no materials -- not a scrap. --De Quincey.

2. Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.

3. pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shrap \Shrap\, Shrape \Shrape\, n. [Cf. Scrap, and Scrape.]

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.]

[Obs.]

--Bp. Bedell.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)