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SCRAPER BUCKET

Specialty Definition: SCRAPER BUCKET

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Mining

A. One of the excavating bowls or buckets that form part of a scraper b. In coal mines, the scraper bucket is a bottomless, three-sided box, with a hinged back. The hinge operates in a forward direction so that on the return journey on the coal face the back opens allowing the box to remain empty. On the loading journey, the coal closes the hinge and the material is drawn or scraped forward to the point of discharge.Syn:scoop. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SCRAPER BUCKET

Specialty definitions using "SCRAPER BUCKET": backhaul. (references)

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Modern Translation: SCRAPER BUCKET

Language Translations for "SCRAPER BUCKET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

scraper (scoop, scraper, scraper skip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCRAPER BUCKET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-k-p-r-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: cupbearers, recaptures.

-4 letters: accepters, apertures, becarpets, capturers, carburets, creatures, cupbearer, puckerers, reaccepts, recapture, recarpets, superrace, upbearers.

-5 letters: abrupter, accepter, accretes, acerbest, aperture, austerer, backrest, barkeeps, becarpet, brackets, breakers, breakups, caperers, capturer, captures, carburet, caterers, crackers, crackups, creature, cupcakes, cutbacks, ecraseur, pasturer, perturbs, prebakes, precures, puckerer, raptures, reaccept, reaccuse, rebaters, rebukers, recarpet, recrates, restruck.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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