scrap merchant

See also: scrapmerchant

English

Noun

scrap merchant (plural scrap merchants)

1. Synonym of scrap dealer.
   • 2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Class 56s revived, rebuilt and rebooted as GBRf Class 69s”, in Rail, page 29:

     Donor locomotives are chosen on account of what works. A locomotive may have been stored for many years, or in the case of 56128 even been sold to a scrap merchant.

Synonyms

• scrappie

References

• “scrap merchant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.