bed-rock scraper

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tool having a blade so set as to facilitate clearing gravel from the bedrock floor.

Quotations

1870

. . . I wish you would bring . . . one small crowbar, a 10-pound sledge[,] three bed-rock scrapers, two shovels. . . .