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

ean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

y 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. His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. Dryden.

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone. Whittier.

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.

A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See Muckrake, v. i., below.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

A scraping; a shaving. [Obs.]

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

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 a bore of a cannon, etc.

An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

a. & n. from Scalp. Scalping iron (Surg.), an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. -- Scalping knife, a knife used by north American Indians in scalping.

A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. -- Sca…

To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above). I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezek. xxvi. 4.

An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.

To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.

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 for covering small cases and boxes.…