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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Scraping

/skrāp'-ĭng/ · Scrap·ing · IPA /skrˈeɪpɪŋ/
01 n. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
  1. 1.
    The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
  2. 2.
    Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
02 a. Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
  1. 1.
    Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.