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From: "crscott" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] dictionary question
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:49:10 -0500
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I doubt that you will find a Fresno Scraper in a genealogy dictionary. It is
an excavation machine.

Information about the Fresno Scraper can be found here complete with
pictures.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rswgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22Fresno+Scraper%
22&ei=BfjJR4HrMZXOywSmnemyCQ#PPA8,M1

I found it by going to Google Books the looking for the words "thrown from a
Fresno"

C.

Craig R. Scott, CG








drapOn Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:31:16 -0800 (PST), glatzmail-roots wrote
> I am at a loss to find what the meaning of the word "fresno" is --
> all my dictionaries (printed & online both) only say it is "a city
> in Northern California." I'm finding it in a newspaper article dated
> 1933 as follows:
>
> "While at work on the road Monday, W E Mikesell of this city was
> thrown from a fresno, receiving severe bruises and injuries to his back."
>
> Does anyone have either an older dictionary, or perhaps A to Zax?
>
> Thanks
> tami glatz
>
> .
>
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