Definitions for the word "Scrape" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v.
(-ping) 1 a move a hard or sharp edge across (a surface), esp. To make smooth. B apply (a hard or sharp edge) in this way. 2 (foll. By away, off, etc.) Remove by scraping. 3 a rub (a surface) harshly against another. B scratch or damage by scraping. 4 make (a hollow) by scraping. 5 a draw or move with a scraping sound. B make such a sound. C produce such a sound from. 6 (often foll. By along, by, through, etc.) Move almost touching surrounding obstacles etc. (scraped through the gap). 7 narrowly achieve (a living, an examination pass, etc.). 8 (often foll. By by, through) a barely manage. B pass an examination etc. With difficulty. 9 (foll. By together, up) bring, provide, or amass with difficulty. 10 be economical. 11 draw back a foot in making a clumsy bow. 12 (foll. By back) draw (the hair) tightly back. n. 1 act or sound of scraping. 2 scraped place; graze.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
a difficulty; SCRAPE, low wit for a shave.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
14. slang
cheap butter; also butter laid on bread in the thinnest
possible manner, as though it had been laid on and scraped off again.
“Bread and SCRAPE,” the bread and butter issued to schoolboys,—so
called from the manner in which the butter is laid on.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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