Definition of scraping

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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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Rament :: Rament (n.) A scraping; a shaving.
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..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..
Strigillose :: Strigil (n.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath..
Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..
Strigose :: Strigment (n.) Scraping; that which is scraped off.
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..
Rugine :: Rugine (n.) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.
Scraping :: Scraping (n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street..
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Bream :: Bream (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping..
Reamer :: Reamer (n.) One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc..
Strike :: Strike (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle..
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at..
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife..
Xyster :: Xyster (n.) An instrument for scraping bones.
Mezzotint :: Mezzotint (n.) A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced..
Rasure :: Rasure (v.) The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
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