Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
scrap . - noun A thicket.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
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Examples
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Instead of going on, the 'bus started circling as though he was enjoying the' shrap 'bath.
Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903
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Just wok bearfut nd wil fined sumfing if itz shrap.
Do you seez thatz? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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November 8, 2008 at 2:40 pm scuze meh kitteh but u needz sum apozabl tums 2 makes an box open. or at leest an shrap knaif…
Fine, I makes mai - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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As the Bradleys cruise through the alleyways of the airport, littered with shrap -- nel and the copses of palm trees, Pecina orders Private Davis into action.
The Grunt's War 2007
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Scattered about were innumerable shrap-nellike pieces of metal.
Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine Almquist, John 1954
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With the bullets and shells ding-donging, and the "krock" and the swish of the shrap;
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Just as I got to the top a shrap burst, an 'the bullets came smashin' an 'tearin' down thro 'the tiles an' rafters.
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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Yes, pretty lively ... big stuff they're flinging mostly, and some fourteen-pounder shrap ....
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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