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- English Word Scrape Definition 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.
- English Word Scrape Definition To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
- English Word Scrape Definition To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
- English Word Scrape Definition To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- English Word Scrape Definition 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.
- English Word Scrape Definition A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
- English Word Scrape Definition 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.
- English Word Scraped Definition of Scrape
- English Word Scrapepenny Definition One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
- English Word Scraper Definition An instrument with which anything is scraped.
- English Word Scraper Definition An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
- English Word Scraper Definition An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
- English Word Scraper Definition An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
- English Word Scraper Definition In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.
- English Word Scraper Definition One who scrapes.
- English Word Scraper Definition One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
- English Word Scraper Definition One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
- English Word Scraping Definition of Scrape
- English Word Scraping Definition The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
- English Word Scraping Definition Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.