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Scraping   /skrˈeɪpɪŋ/   Listen
Scraping

noun
1.
(usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected.
2.
A harsh noise made by scraping.  Synonyms: scrape, scratch, scratching.
3.
A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility).  Synonym: scrape.


Scrape

verb
(past & past part. scraped; pres. part. scraping)
1.
Scratch repeatedly.  Synonym: grate.
2.
Make by scraping.
3.
Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of.  Synonyms: scratch, scratch up.
4.
Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner.  Synonyms: genuflect, kowtow.
5.
Gather (money or other resources) together over time.  Synonyms: come up, scrape up, scratch.  "They scratched a meager living"
6.
Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of.  Synonym: skin.



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"Scraping" Quotes from Famous Books



... following with Cherry nevertheless, to see her scatter her chopped food carelessly on the surface of the little pond, the struggling bodies of the ducklings, and the bobbing downy heads alike. With quacking and wriggling and dabbling, the meal was eaten, and Alix, scraping the bowls for last fragments, and blinking in a flood of sunlight, laughed ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... doubt as to the age of this tumulus. This example of trepanation is the only well authenticated one of which I know in Brittany. It is true one skull has been mentioned as found beneath the megalithic monument of Saint-Picoux de Quiberon (Morbihan), which is even said to bear marks of sawing and scraping made in attempting trepanation, but this fact has been very much questioned, and the date at which the trepanation was performed, if performed it were, is very doubtful.[192] The proof we are seeking of the antiquity of the operation of trepanation ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... they crouched in a cave above a swiftly flowing river. Kirby, rifle across his knees, sat peering out across the black, invisible stretches of the forest. His nostrils quivered to this mingled smells of fresh growth and fetid decay of the grotesque land. In his ears shrilled the creaking and scraping of insects, the flap of unseen wings, the distant bellowing grunt ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... scraping his arm-chair backwards along the floor, and shook hands with her, and said with ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... animal through the head, our travellers then walked back to the caravan. As they returned by the banks of the river, they perceived Begum very busy, scraping up the baked mud at the ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat


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