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dragline scraper

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dragline scraper [′drag‚līn ′skrāp·ər]
(mechanical engineering)
A machine with a flat, plowlike blade or partially open bucket pulled on rope for withdrawing piled material, such as stone or coal, from a stockyard to the loading platform; the empty bucket is subsequently returned to the pile of material by means of a return rope.


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