scrape1 n Cp EDD ~ 15 'bare place on a steep hillside' Do. A bare patch, often caused by erosion or a landslide, on a steep bank or hill, freq in place-names; a pathway worn on a hillside.
1867 MURRAY & HOWLEY 128 ... the point called 'the Scrape,' on the western side of Tilt Cove. 1895 J A Folklore viii, 38 ~ a rough road down the face of a bank or steep hill, used specially in regard to such as are formed by sliding or hauling logs down. 1905 Geog J xxvi, 188 We ... ascended to the high plateau that lies to the north of the bay by a landslide, or 'scrape,' to use the local expression, of over 1000 feet in height. 1937 DEVINE 42 ~ A narrow path down the side of a hill, worn by passing cattle; or made by an avalanche of the soil. 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 152 Scrape Cove head ... westward of Big Bald head, is 419 feet high, and shows dark against the lighter background. P 238-59 Scrape has two usages—to describe the result of glacial movement, and to describe the collapsing of the side of a hill caused by inundation or the building of a railway or road at the base (very commonly used by railroaders: 'Connors' Scrape,' etc). T 13/17-64 Cape Broyle Head is a very high head, roughly five hundred, four hundred feet. And there's a big scrape, bare ground, down through a grove of woods, which was after being a landslide. And there's footin's, cliffs you [can] walk up there. Q 67-6 ~ a rough road or path in the hills. Q 67-109 ~ a bare trench about 40 feet wide down the side of a steep hill where wood has been thrown down for generations. 1971 CASEY 245 Only a few days after that, there was one of the fellows, they were heavin' down the wood over the scrape and a rock rolled down and crippled him up. 1979 TIZZARD 330 We went to fish on Bullock's Rock with the marks: a white scrape in Little Harbour Bight overright the Clam Rocks and the Dead Man ... opened in Sler's Tickle.
