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‖ grattoir Archæol.|gratwar|
[Fr., f. gratter to scrape, scratch.]
A flint scraping tool in which the working edge is at the end of the blade or flake and lies across its long axis; an ‘end-scraper’. (Cf. scraper 4 e.)
1872[see scraper 4 e]. 1887Amer. Antiquarian IX. 341, 4000 grattoirs, blades, knives and saws. 1915W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters (ed. 2) 298 The grattoirs or end scrapers are generally short and rough. Ibid. 485 The characteristic keeled grattoir. 1926Guide Antiquities Stone Age (Brit. Mus.) (ed. 3) 130 A good specimen of the double end-scraper, consisting of a flintflake rounded at both ends on one face only by use as a plane (grattoir) is here illustrated. |