The word "scraper" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a tool that is used for scraping something, such as paint or food, from a surface. For example: I used a scraper to remove the dried paint from the window frame.
Surface clays are typically recovered by means of power shovels, bulldozers with scraper blades, and dragline operations.
The scraper could function as a knife, although it is speculated that it was used for working wood and skins, a supposition leading to the idea that skins were being used for clothing.
Many beetles produce sound, usually by rubbing one part of the body (a scraper) against another part (the file).
Aside from the harp, Sangaré used a violin to replace or suggest the traditional Wassoulou bowed lute, a scraper to add rhythmic drive, and the electric guitar and bass to provide melodic and harmonic support.
The "tiger" of China, known as early as the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 256 bce), is a vessel scraper of wood with a series of notches cut along its back; it is scraped with a split bamboo stick.
In Puerto Rican traditional music, a guitar plays the harmony, the 10-stringed lute with 5 double courses (cuatro) plays the melody with the singer, and the scraper (guiro) and drums (timbales) produce the rhythmic part.
Erotica doesn't get tonier than in Alma-Tadema's "Tepidarium" (1882), a luminous small painting of an enervated Roman lass wielding a phallic strigil (a skin-scraper) and a strategically positioned feathered fan while recumbent on pillows and fur.
The fame of his products — not only scents and oils but cosmetics, powders, pomades, hair dyes, and such dainty novelties as a tongue-scraper — attracted the Queen's attention.
When the Yankees swept the Mets at home two weeks ago, they scored 12 of their 18 runs via eight homers, including a wall-scraper by Russell Martin that cleared Yankee Stadium's low fence like a distance runner gasping across a finish line.
I mean, when did those ballyhooed, whoopee-we're-big-in-Brooklyn Nets turn into the N.B.A. equivalent of ice-scraper mittens?
Opponents derided the tower as the "gazoskryob," or gas-scraper, and called it emblematic of the hubris of Russia during the energy boom.
