scavenger
Speech parts
1. scavenger - Noun
2. scavenger - Verb
Meaning
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
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A second scavenger pump and five drain lines were added to the engine installation that allowed the aircraft to be flown inverted for up to thirty minutes.
Brown has also proposed that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) grew stronger during the Holocene, and that the devil, as a scavenger with a short life span, was highly sensitive to this.
Dakota News Now is reporting, BookYourBillboard is hosting the social distancing scavenger hunt this Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00 PM on select billboards throughout the Sioux Empire.
After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search – a search to find Mr. Benedict who is being held captive by his evil twin Mr. Curtain.
It is speculated that the devil lineage may have arisen at this time to fill a niche in the ecosystem, as a scavenger that disposed of carrion left behind by the selective-eating thylacine.
As Zoe and the other guides follow Amanda's trail on a wild scavenger hunt, they learn that the real reason Amanda chose them is rooted in their pasts, tied up with a sinister program their parents went through.