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scrap 1  (skrp)
n.
1. A small piece or bit; a fragment.
2. scraps Leftover bits of food.
3. Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing.
4. scraps Crisp pieces of rendered animal fat; cracklings.
tr.v. scrapped, scrap·ping, scraps
1. To break down into parts for disposal or salvage.
2. To discard as worthless or sell to be reused as parts; junk.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skrap, trifles, pieces; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]

scrap 2  (skrp)
intr.v. scrapped, scrap·ping, scraps
To fight, often with the fists.
n.
A fight or a scuffle.

[Perhaps variant of scrape.]

scrapper n.

scrap1
n
1. a small piece of something larger; fragment
2. an extract from something written
3. (Engineering / Metallurgy)
a.  waste material or used articles, esp metal, often collected and reprocessed
b.  (as modifier) scrap iron
4. (plural) pieces of discarded food
vb scraps, scrapping, scrapped (tr)
1. to make into scrap
2. to discard as useless
[from Old Norse skrap; see scrape]

scrap2 Informal
n
a fight or argument
vb scraps, scrapping, scrapped
(intr) to quarrel or fight
[perhaps from scrape]

Scrap(s) a bit or fragment.
Examples: scrap of a thunderous epic, 1847; of evidence, 1868; of knowledge, 1879; of learning; of news; of paper, 1726; of supper, 1761; of time, 1767; of other folks’ wit, 1700.

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Also, on the table I found a scrap of paper which had written on it, "My dearest Makar Alexievitch I hasten to--" that was all.
"Bev will run the scrap book department, besides the editorials," said the Story Girl, seeing that I was too modest to say it myself.
The foreman seated himself near the candle, produced from his breast pocket a pencil and scrap of paper and wrote rather laboriously the following verdict, which with various degrees of effort all signed:
 
 
 
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