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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..

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..

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..

Claw :: Claw (v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw..

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely..

Paw :: Paw (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.

Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.

Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..

Scrap :: Scrap (v. t.) Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion..

Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along..

Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich..

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.

Erase :: Erase (v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name..

Flawter :: Flawter (v. t.) To scrape o/ pare, as a skin..

Scrapepenny :: Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Scraping :: Scraping (n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street..

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