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nounscrap merchant (plural scrap merchants)
plural scrap merchants
- Synonym of scrap dealer.
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.
2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Class 56s revived, rebuilt and rebooted as GBRf Class 69s”, in Rail, page 29Synonyms: scrap dealer, scrappie
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nounSynonym of scrap dealer.
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scrap merchant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scrap%20merchant
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“scrap merchant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scrap%20merchant. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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