stone scraper
Archaeological term for a stone tool used for scraping. Compare 削器 (さっき) and スクレーパー.
この遺跡からは多くの掻器が出土した。
Many stone scrapers were excavated from this site.
Loanword from English 'scraper'; used more broadly for modern scraping tools, not limited to archaeology.
Standard kanji form for this archaeological term.
Search-only variant using the older form of the first kanji.
Compound of 掻く (かく, 'to scrape') and 器 (き, 'tool'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning.