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turnpike shovel

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See scraper 1935 quote.

See: road-scraper,scraper

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1853

[The road] has been ploughed on each side, and the earth, so raised, thrown up in the centre by the means of a road-scraper or turnpike shovel, worked either with horses or oxen.