To scrape or smooth a surface using a hand-operated scraping tool.
Compound of 'hand' and 'scrape', indicating manual scraping work as opposed to mechanical scraping.
Handscrapers were precision tools used by machinists to achieve incredibly flat surfaces before power tools existed—a skilled scraper could feel imperfections smaller than a human hair.
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