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What is a scourer?

What is a scourer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookwares.
  2. Agent noun of scour; a person who scours.
  3. (obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
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Lin said the bamboo leaves are first scrubbed with a scourer to make them soft.
Before the war he had been a scourer at Messrs Allen Thornton and Sons in Honley.
Leave to cool and infuse for half an hour. 2 Peel the pears and rub them down with a scourer to remove the peel lines.
Aside from his poetry, which was a life-long obsession, he was in turn a thresher, bird-scarer, plough boy, pot scourer and gardener.
In the case of plastral staining by tannin and other deposits, the plastron was scrubbed with a stainless steel scourer to allow visibility of the plastral figure.
She was a compulsive scrubber and scourer, while he found the spectacle of her getting dirty equally compelling.

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