Definition of scrape

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Scrape (n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen..

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Scraper :: Scraper (n.) One who scrapes.
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen..
Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town..
Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down..
Lint :: Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
Scraping :: Scraping (n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street..
Flawter :: Flawter (v. t.) To scrape o/ pare, as a skin..
Hoe :: Hoe (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface..
Rasper :: Rasper (n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing..
Scrapepenny :: Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich..
Scraping :: Scraping (n.) The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper..
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