Dictionary

scrapping en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The act by which something is scrapped.
   • The number of ship scrappings over the past five years has declined appreciably on an annual basis since the mid-1980s which was a period of intense shipbreaking activity. 1993, N. Wijnolst, C. Peeters, P. Liebman, European shortsea shipping, page 11:
   • Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood. 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:

Forms

scrapping en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of scraping.
   alt of scraping
2. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of scrap
   form of scrap