SCRAPING

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.

2.
n.

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

3.
a.

Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser. -- Scrap"ing*ly, adv.

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