What does "scraping" mean?
Scraping: Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
Additional senses
- 2.Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser. -- Scrap"ing*ly, adv.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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