1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrape.
2. (n.) The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
3. (n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
4. (a.) Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
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