Scrape
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.
(2): ( v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
(3): ( v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
(4): ( n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
(5): ( n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
(6): ( v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
(7): ( v. t.) To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; - usually with down.
(8): ( v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
(9): ( v. t.) To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
(10): ( v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
(11): ( v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; - often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.
King James Dictionary [2]
Scrape, L. scribo, Gr. to write. See Grave.
1. To rub the surface of any thing with a sharp or rough instrument, or with something hard as, to scrap the floor to scrape a vessel for cleaning it to scrape the earth to scrape the body. Job 2 . 2. To clean by scraping. Leviticus 14 . 3. To remove or take off by rubbing.
I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezekiel 26 .
4. To act upon the surface with a grating noise.
The chiming clocks to dinner call a hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall.
To scrape off, to remove by scraping to clear away by rubbing.
To scrape together, to gather by close industry or small gains or savings as, to scrape together a good estate.
1. To make a harsh noise. 2. To play awkwardly on a violin. 3. To make an awkward bow.
To scrape acquaintance, to make one's self acquainted to curry favor. A low phrase introduced from the practice of scraping in bowing.
Scrape, n.
1. A rubbing. 2. The sound of the foot drawn over the floor. 3. A bow. 4. Difficulty perplexity distress that which harasses. A low word.
