SCRAP
1 —none. 1 small detached piece; fragment. 2 rubbish or waste material. 3 discarded metal for reprocessing (often attrib.: scrap metal). 4 (with neg.) Smallest piece or amount. 5 (in plural.) A odds and ends. B uneaten food. —verb. (-pp-) discard as useless. [old norse: related to *scrape]