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In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.] Raymond.

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.:(a) To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. (b) To the taste. "Berries harsh and crude." Milton. (c) To the ear. "Harsh din." Milton.

In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely. 'T will sound harshly in her ears. Shak.

Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven. The hoarse resounding shore. Dryden.

With a harsh, grating sound or voice.

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.

To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.

An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.

The act of migrating.

To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding. [Poetic] At last our grating keels outslide. Whittier.

A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. "Let the portcullis fall." Sir W. Scott. She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew. Milton.

Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating. R. D. Blackmore.

The act or practice of regrating.

One guilty of regrating.

Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers. Pope.

Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.

Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like. Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. Dryden.

The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.