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Scrubber   /skrˈəbər/   Listen
noun
Scrubber  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush or machine used in scrubbing.
2.
(Gas Manuf.) A gas washer. See under Gas.
3.
(Manufacturing) A device for removing pollutants from a gas stream, especially for removing sulfur oxides from processes burning coal or oil.


Scrubber  n.  
1.
A stunted or emaciated steer.
2.
A person who lives in the bush. (Australian)
3.
A domesticated animal which has escaped and lives wild in the bush. (Australian)





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"Scrubber" Quotes from Famous Books



... if kids is frolicsome. Bow-ties is for Sunday wear. Girl's hair needs braidin' every night, an' don't leave chewin' t'baccer around. Kids is sure to eat it. Best give 'em physic every Saturday night, an' bath 'em Sunday mornin'. Don't use no hand scrubber. If you can't git through the dirt by ord'nary washin', best leave it. Kids is tender-skinned anyway. After their bath set 'em out in the sun, an' give 'em an elegant Bible talk. Ther' ain't nothin' like a Bible talk fer kids. It sets 'em wise to religion ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... spate on Sacramento. We rode over one of the 'snags' with a shudder, and all our jack-easy Pilot said was, "Guess that'll take some 'f th' barnacles off 'r battum, bettr'r a week's sojerin' with the patent scrubber!" All the same he took very good care that his own ...
— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone
... could not decide. And Felipe Rivera, the scrubber for the Revolution, continued, as occasion arose, to lay down gold and silver ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London
... of the species are interminable; some of them are well known, and need no description—such as the book-worm, the bird-stuffer, the coin-taster, the picture-scrubber, &c.; but there are others whose tastes are singularly eccentric: of these I may mention the snuff-box collector, the cane-fancier, the ring-taker, the play-bill gatherer, to say nothing of one illustrious personage, whose passion for collecting a library of Bibles is generally ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various


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