scrapen.1
/skreɪp/, U.S. /skreɪp/ I. Means, act, or result of scraping.
1. An instrument for scraping, a scraper.† a. A scraping tool held in the hand. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > [noun]
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c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 607 Or brasen scrapis out of euery dalke Hem scrape [L. uncinis æreis tollendi sunt vermes ex ficu].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 247/1 The Fourth is an Iron Scrape..set in a wooden handle, it is for the skullion to scrape and clense the furnice hole.
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b. Eastern U.S. ‘A small dredge’ (Funk's Stand. Dict.).
2. An act of scraping.
a. gen.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion
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1483 Cath. Angl. 324/2 A Scrape (MS. Addit. to Scrappe) as a hen dose; ruspare.
1553 R. Ascham Rep. Affaires Germany 27 b And how soone emig [read einig] may be turned into ewig, not with scrape of knife, but with the least dash of a pen, so that it shall neuer be perceiued, a man that will proue, may easely see.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gratture, a scratch, a scrape.
b. scrape of a pen (Scottish): a hasty scribble, a small scrap of writing. Cf. scribe n.2, scrip n.3
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1690 Earl of Melfort in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 198 And in all this time we have not one scrape of a pen to free us from all these pains we suffer.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 295 It..wad cost but the scrape of a pen to make it out. View more context for this quotation
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. ix. viii. 287 Just give me a scrape of a pen to him to transfer the amount to your credit.
c. An awkward bow or salutation in which the foot is drawn backwards on the ground. Often coupled with bow or leg.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > manifestation of respect > bowing, kneeling, or curtseying > a bow or curtsey
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1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxi. sig. E1v But his scrape is homely, and his nod worse.
1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 366 That they might make long legs and scrapes to them.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) II. xxxix. 50 A formal fellow..going to see an acquaintance of his..made a thousand scrapes and cringes.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 97 I..made him abundance of Bows, and Scrapes.
1787 J. P. Andrews Anecd. (1790) 146 He drew from his purse a guinea, and with a scrape, made an uncouth offer of it.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy i To every one of these assurances..Andy made a bow and a scrape.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xv. 171 Uncle Reuben made his very best scrape and then walked up to the table.
d. A drawing of the bow over the violin.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > bowing > passage of bow
scrapea1817
bow1838
a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 327 No sound of a Ball but the first Scrape of one violin.
1831 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 7 July He can actually sell the tones of his fiddle at so much a scrape.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iv. xi. 309 Baroni..appeared..with his violin. He gave a scrape or two, and the audience became orderly.
e. jocular. A shave.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cutting or shaving > act of > a shave
shave1838
scrape1859
ocean wave1928
wet shave1976
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 87 Scrape, low wit for a shave.
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie iv I's jist gang ower to the barber's an' get a scrape.
f. Fencing. (See quots.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
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1889 W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 52 The scrape.—If slang were allowed, this ought to be called the ‘scrooge’; but there is no English word which precisely reproduces the French froissé. It is delivered in tierce when the adversary has his point too low, or his arm stretched out.
1889 W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 52 Giving his sword a scrape which ought to unnerve his hand for the moment.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 385/1 [article Fencing] The scrape (this is the nearest English word for the French froissé) is made only in the high lines and mostly in the upper line (tierce).
g. A sound of scraping.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > scratching or scraping
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scrape1886
scritch1953
1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xiv The harsh scrape of Natt's clogs was on the gravel.
h. A dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the womb; spec. an induced abortion. slang.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on sex organs > operations on female sex organs
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nymphotomy1704
hysterotomy1707
ovariotomy1844
clitoridectomy1866
hysterectomy1872
oophorectomy1872
ovariectomy1873
clitorectomy1880
genital mutilation1884
myomotomy1884
myomectomy1886
salpingectomy1888
panhysterectomy1890
salpingo-oöphorectomy1890
trachelotomy1890
dilatation and curettage1906
vulvectomy1916
tubectomy1925
hymenectomy1931
salpingolysis1937
labiaplasty1964
scrape1968
female genital cutting1996
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on sex organs > operations on female sex organs > obstetrical operations > for abortion
termination1904
illegal operation1910
vacuum aspiration1967
scrape1968
1968 ‘J. Hudson’ Case of Need iii. i. 172 The word got around..that she got a bad scrape.
1972 Rochdale's Alternative Paper No. 6. 10/2 The most common method [of abortion] in Britain for pregnancies of less than three months is D. & C. (better known to most women as a scrape).
1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 62 She was having a D and C, a routine scrape.
3. One who ‘scrapes’ or uses excessive economy, a miser. Obsolete exc. dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II A Scrape, as meer Scrape, a saving industrious Person.
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a. A place scraped bare on a hillside. dialect.
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1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xix. 242 I have known them lie in sheep's scrapes on the side of hills, and in small bushes.
1848 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (new ed.) Gloss. Scrape, a sheep-scrape; a bare place, where the turf has been scraped off by sheep's feet on a steep down-side.
1894 Patterson Newfdld. Words in Trans. Amer. Folk-Lore Soc. (E.D.D.) Scrape, a rough road down the face of a bank or steep hill, used specially in regard to such as are formed by sliding or hauling logs down.
b. A place where the soil has been scraped up.
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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > where soil scraped up
scrape1862
1862 Athenæum 27 Sept. 391 The deer which..were addicted, at certain seasons, to dig up the land with their fore feet, in holes to the depth of..half a yard, contributed a new word to our language. These were called ‘scrapes’.
1901 Scotsman 9 Apr. 7/4 Rabbit holes and scrapes at once appeared in shoals to the terror of the old golfers.
c. Ornithology. A shallow pit in the ground excavated by a bird, usually during a courtship display; also, the action of making such a pit.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > sexual display > scrape ceremony > pit made during
scrape1926
1926 Ibis 2 7 All the scrapes noted were within about fifty or sixty yards from a nest.
1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds IV. 385 In more advanced scrapes female with back to male will peck in bottom of scrape.
1942 E. A. Armstrong Bird Display ii. 27 An unmated female red-necked phalarope makes scrapes in the herbage, and from the first day of finding a mate this ‘ceremony’ often follows coition... Before laying, the female visits the various scrapes and lays an egg in one of them.
1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles IX. 15 The main type of sexual behaviour preceding coition is the tail-display... At this stage the scrape-ceremony is very common, a typically male performance by which he lures the female to one scrape after another.
1967 B. Campbell J. Hanzák's Pictorial Encycl. of Birds 254/2 The nest is a shallow scrape lined with small stones or shells.
5. A layer (of butter) scraped thin; chiefly in bread and scrape (colloquial).
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > thin layer
scrape1847
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. vii. 107 A double ration of bread..with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter.
1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 170 Cutting the children's bread and scrape!
1873 R. Broughton Nancy xlvii Some people have their happiness thinly spread over their whole lives, like bread and scrape!
6. (See quot. 1879.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [noun] > oleoresins from coniferous trees
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Strasbourg turpentine1683
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Scio turpentine1710
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Canada balsam1754
Canada balsam1754
Canada turpentine1762
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1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 343 It [turpentine] is occasionally..scraped off, and barreled by itself. It is, therefore, known in market as ‘scrape’.
1879 F. H. Butler in Encycl. Brit. IX. 711/1 The concreted turpentine obtained in the United States by making incisions in the trunk of a species of pine, Pinnus australis,..is commercially known as ‘scrape’.
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 517 The yield of the ‘scrapes’..is estimated..at from 60 to 70 barrels of 280 pounds [of turpentine] each.
7. On a woodwind instrument, the part of the cane that is scraped to a narrow edge in the production of a reed. Also, the style of this scraping.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > associated parts
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1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) VI. 161/2 According to the quality of the cane from which it is made, and the character of its ‘scrape’, a reed [of an oboe] may be responsive or unyielding.
1961 Sprenkle & Ledet Art of Oboe Playing 95/2 The French scrape has a rather long tip.
1980 Early Music 8 363/2 There are 3 basic scrapes..of which no. 1 is the most common.
II. An embarrassing or awkward predicament.
8. An embarrassing or awkward predicament or situation, usually one into which a person is brought by his own imprudence and thoughtlessness.[Probably from the notion of being ‘scraped’ in going through a narrow passage: see scrape v. 4c, and the later sense 9.]
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits
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1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 71 A Youngster in a Scrape, is a Word out of Date.
1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 89 Cleander told Rivella what a Scrape they were brought into.
1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid I. 270 I congratulated myself on my Dexterity in getting out of this Scrape.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scrape, difficulty; perplexity; distress. This is a low word.
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 7 I was generally a Leader among the Boys, and sometimes led them into Scrapes.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xx. 13 And let few opportunities escape Of getting her liege lord into a scrape.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. vii. 182 Every scrape of the government was a step in the ladder to the great borough-monger.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. v. 78 Here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xlvi. 24 If you don't take care, young man,..you will find yourself in a scrape with your Madalina.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iv. 55 If anyone was in a scrape about money, Ingram would come to the rescue.
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b. U.S. colloquial. A hand-to-hand fight, a skirmish; a brawl. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight
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punch-up1958
thump-up1967
1812 Massachusetts Spy 19 Aug. 3/1 A scouting party of about 100 men went down towards Malden; when they arrived near the river Canau, they got into a scrape with about the same number of Indians.
1839 W. McNally Evils & Abuses Naval & Merchant Service 66 American and French seamen have never met on shore..without a row and fight... Every American officer and seaman..deplored the fatal termination of one of those scrapes, in which a young French lieutenant was killed.
1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 81 Scrape (for fight or difficulty). [Note] Of late the word has lost its final e and shortened its vowel, becoming scrap.
1954 L. Armstrong Satchmo i. 8 There was a great big shooting scrape in the Alley.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
scrapen.2
/skreɪp/, U.S. /skreɪp/ dialect.
A trap for catching birds; = shrape n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > trap or snare
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1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 124 Next you shall enquire if there be in euery parish..a crow net,..and it is not enough to haue one, but it must be vsed, & scrapes made in the winter to that purpose.
1669 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. A Shrape, or Scrape, a place baited with Chaff, or Corn, to entice Birds.
1706 E. Baynard Cold Baths II. 425 Catch'd like Sparrows in a Scrape of Chaff.
a1876 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire (1877) 177 Scrape, seeds or corn laid on the snow, in order to get a raking shot at birds.
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scrapev.
/skreɪp/, U.S. /skreɪp//skreɪpt/. Also 1500s Scottish scraip(e, skraip (pr. participle screpand, screpping, 1600s rarely past participle scrapen. 1. † b. spec. To erase (writing, etc.) with a knife. Chiefly with adverbs out, away, off, and const. out of.The earliest recorded use; the older screpe v. occurs in the same sense. Sometimes (as in quot. 1563) the sense appears to be: To delete by crossing through with a pen.figurative and in extended use.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 448 Faire so his figure is festened in mi ȝout [read þout], þat wiþ no coyntise ne craft ne can y it out scrape.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 431 Haue mynde of Moyses, hym was levere be scraped out of þe book of lyf.1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciii His vnhappy predestinate chaunce coulde not by any pollicy be put by, nor by any instrument scraped away.c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David ix. xii The poore in sprite Shall not be scrapt, from out of heav'nly score.a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 201 Yes, by all meanes: if it be but to scrape the figures out of your husbands braines. View more context for this quotation
a. transitive. To remove (an outer layer or something excrescent or adhering) by drawing across the surface the edge of some instrument held nearly perpendicularly. Chiefly with adverbs, off, away, out, or const. from, off, out of.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scrape > scrape off or away
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip by scraping > a covering
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scratc1500
detract1607
scrabble1808
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job ii. 8 The whiche with a sherd scrapide [a1425 L.V. schauyde] awei the quyture, sittende in the dunghil.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 213 Þat men of þat lond ete þe flesche of her owne children, and meny scrapede of þe pouder of an hil and ete it as it were mele.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 608 Or brasen scrapis out of euery dalke Hem scrape.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 450/2 Scrapyn, or schavyn a-wey, abrado.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQiiiv He scraped the stynkyng fylthe and corrupcion of her deed body.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xiv. 43 After yt the stones are broken out, & the playster scraped of [etc.].
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 16 Of this Robert reporteth Reynulph that he scraped from one Beame of his Church in Couentrie fiue hundreth marke, to fill the hande of king William.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 550 With kniues in their hands, to scrape from their legs the bloud-leeches.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 204 [He] doth enlarge his Rising, with the blood Of faire King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones, Deriues from heauen, his Quarrell, and his Cause.
1686 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 3) v. x. 94 After your Groom has..scrapt off all the Sweat from your Horses.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 27 When you cut Bread for a Toast,..lay it on the Coals,..and if you find it toasted quite through, scrape off the burned Side, and serve it up.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 189 But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face.
1786 J. Chelsum Hist. Engrav. Mezzotinto 6 These parts are scraped away in a greater or less degree, as the lights are intended to be stronger or weaker.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 191 Covered by a soft pulpy matter, which may be readily scraped away.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 111 I scraped the lichen from it [sc. a tomb].
1877 R. H. Hutton Ess. (ed. 2) I. 37 Like dry colours scraped off a picture.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)]
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to wipe (off) the slate1921
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by scraping
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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 7044 And commaunded alle yn rape A-wey þat wrytyng for to skrape.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. xxi. 83 Which thing if it so were, riht so alle hise ordenaunces shulden be put out of the book, and defaced and scraped.
a1456 (c1385) G. Chaucer Wordes unto Adam 6 So ofte a daye I mot thy werk renewe, Hit to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape, And al is through thy negligence and rape.
?a1500 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) 190 I will skrape this awaie anon, Their as a virgine is wrytten on, I will wryte, a good woman.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 707/1 Scrape out this lyne, it is falsely written.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 421/1 A..learned priest, that through out al the ghospels scraped out diabolus and wrote Iesus Christus.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1158/1 Then he tooke his penne, and sayd that hee woulde scrape it oute for my pleasure.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1189/1 Bookes..beautified with Images, the heads wherof had bin scraped off.
1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 152 Screpping out the wordis (ful of grace) and putting in..(frelie beloouit).
1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 276 Screpand out thir wordis, Except [etc.].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 8 Thou conclud'st like the Sanctimonious Pirat, that went to sea with the ten Commandements, but scrap'd one out of the Table. View more context for this quotation
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 19/2 One end was sharpe to make the letters, the other end broad with an edge, to scrape what was amise, out againe.
2.
a. To deprive of an outer layer or to free from excrescent or adhering matter by drawing the edge of some instrument over the surface; to abrade, clean, or render smooth, or to obtain scrapings from, by this process.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > remove soil or make hole by scratching
scrapec1430
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scrape or rub smooth
polisha1382
ruba1382
scrapec1430
abrase?a1475
to rub down1794
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip by scraping
to-schrapea1225
scrapec1430
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 18 Take þe Mawes of Turbut, Haddok, or Codelyng, & pyke hem clene, & skrape hem, & Wasshem clene.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 707/1 I scrape a parchement skynne to make it the better to write on.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 707/1 Scrape the knedynge troughe or you put in the meale.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xiv. 41 Then shall he command..the house to be scraped within rounde aboute.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xliij And with a piece of glasse he skrapeth his fingers.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. v. 2 Wheres Potpan that he helpes not to take away? He shift a trencher, he scrape a trencher? View more context for this quotation
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes i. §25 Onicha, a kind of spice very cleare, which being scraped giveth an extraordinary sweet savour.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 It may bee his trenchers were not scrap't.
1662 W. Faithorne Art of Graveing & Etching 48 After you have graved part of your work, it will be necessary to scrape it with a sharp edge of another Graver.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 70 These hard woods are..more properly said to be Scraped, than Plained.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Horse-radish The Root..is scraped and used with Vinegar for Sauce to roast Beef, Mutton, &c.
1772 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 14 150 We want a good season much, most of our tob[acc]o ground being scraped.
1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 30/2 He..scraped the joints of his fingers with a pen-knife, till they seemed quite red and raw.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 283 The cotton..is thinned out, or as it is called, ‘scraped’.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 370 The gravel walk and terrace had been scraped quite clean.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxii. 349 Ice at 32° may..be scraped with a knife with even greater facility than some kinds of chalk.
1880 Standard 12 Apr. 2/8 He at once seized him and discovered that he had a gold band bracelet,..worth about 5l... It had evidently been tested, for it was ‘scraped’ in more than one place.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Oct. 2/2 An ironclad's..bottom is always foul when she cannot be periodically docked and scraped.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Scraping, cleaning the spars of a ship and parts of the hull with a small piece of sharp iron, steel, or glass.
b. To remove the dirt from the soles of (one's boots or shoes) by drawing them over a door-scraper.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > clean shoes [verb (transitive)] > clean shoes by scraping
scrape1844
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xliii. 495 I'd scrape my shoes on the scraper of the door.
c. Used jocularly for: To shave.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > shave
shearc897
shave?c1225
strikec1275
razec1460
mow1647
scrapea1774
razora1783
tonsure1793
stubble1836
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 156 Their barber bauld his whittle crooks, An' scrapes them for the races.
d. To inscribe or portray on stone by scraping away the surface.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > incise (marks or figures) [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
gravec1275
raspc1400
insculp?a1475
insculpt1487
scrape1532
sculp?1533
engrave1542
enchase1579
incarve1596
engraven1605
trencha1616
scratch1644
style1864
lithograph1872
scribe1896
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 728/2 But if he feele it written there in dede as he saith he doth, then he feleth it scribled and scraped in his hert by the croked clouen clawes of the deuill.
a1587 L. Aldersey in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 182 The outside of the [holy] sepulchre is very foule, by meanes that euery man scrapes his name and marke vpon it.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 401 The family arms were just new scraped in stone.
e. To produce (a mezzotint engraving) by scraping the prepared copper plate. Also absol.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > mezzotint > technique
scrape1747
1747 Sculptura-Hist.-Techn. 225 Mezzotinto, called Scraping or Burnishing on Copper.
1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 128 Several prints were made from his works, and several plates he etched and scraped himself.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 3/1 The painter has scraped a mezzotint from his picture.
f. To clean or empty out by scraping.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > clean by scraping [verb (transitive)]
pattle1553
scurf1839
scrape1894
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > by scraping
scrape1894
1894 ‘R. Andom’ We Three & Troddles xxi. 198 When you have done with that jam you might let me have the pot to scrape out.
1919 E. Shackleton South xii. 237 As the cook and his ‘mate’ had the privilege of scraping out the saucepans, there was some anxiety to secure the job.
1925 Morris Owner's Man. 14 Thoroughly scrape out and oil cams until they work quite freely.
g. To damage (growing plants, etc.).
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1909 Chambers's Jrnl. 104/1 The Night Riders..have destroyed buildings in addition to ‘scraping’ or uprooting fields of young tobacco-plants.
h. To draw (hair) tightly back from the forehead. Cf. scraped adj. 2b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > arrange
truss1340
flarec1550
puff1884
stiver1886
scrape1926
scrag1937
1926 ‘O. Douglas’ Proper Place xxxi. 280 I couldn't have believed she had such pretty, soft hair for she wore it scraped back.
a. Of a beast or bird: To remove (soil, etc.) by scratching with the feet or claws; to make (a hole) by scratching. Also absol. or intransitive, to scratch in the ground. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 308 Sho [a wolf] began to skrape & grafe abowte þe rowte with hur naylis.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 450/2 Scrapyn, as hennys, ruspor.
a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 392 Hys gode hownde..scraped on hy[m] bothe ryn and mosse, And fro hym neuyr wolde gon!
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 707/1 Yonder dogge scrapeth to make a hole to hyde his dyner in.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Scalpturio, to scrape as a Cocke dothe, or other fowles.
a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. C He is a proud Tod that will not scrape his own hole.
b. transitive with adverb or phrase. †to scrape out, forth: to dig out with the nails or claws. Also figurative.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove or displace by scratching, scraping, stripping, or cutting
bestrip1065
file?c1225
to cut awayc1320
raze1419
screeve?1440
rakec1475
to scrape out, forth1530
scrata1560
scrabble1657
scamble1707
peel1787
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 707/1 She loved nat her housbonde whyle he lyved, and now she wolde be gladde to scrape hym out of the yerthe with her nayles.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 10 For ane hen that seikis hyr meyt in the mydding, may scraipe sa lang amang the fyltht, quhil sche scraip furtht sum ald knyfe that hes been tynt.
1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) iv. 205 The females [turtles].. lay their eggs in holes [in the sand] which they scoop out with their fin-like feet. The work being accomplished, the sand is again scraped back over the eggs, and the surface made smooth as before.
a. To scratch with the finger-nails or claws; also intransitive. Also, to caress (a dog, etc.) by scratching or clawing. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape > claws, nails, or fingers
scrapec1000
scrata1250
rake1574
scratch1589
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scratch
clawc1000
scrat1340
frushc1430
scrapec1440
scartc1480
scrab1481
heckle?1507
mouse1531
bescratch1555
razea1586
ferret-claw1591
scrub1596
beclaw1603
bescramble1605
rake1609
shrub1657
talon1685
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > caress by scratching or clawing
scrapea1475
c1000 Sign Language §67 in Techmers Zeitschr. II. (1885) Gif þu ægera beþurfe, þonne scrapa þu mid þinum fingre up on þinne wynstran þuman.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 450/2 Scrapyn, a(s) bestys (MS. S. schrapen), scalpo.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 87 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 301 Yf þy nown dogge þou scrape or clawe, Þat is holden a vyse emong men knawe.
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 97 Thou likst ill men, ill men thee laude. So Mules of mules are scrapt and clawd.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 163 The little Dog seeing his true maister returned home, ranne barking to the doore..fawning and scraping his Lord and maister also.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (intransitive)]
scud1602
go scrape!1611
to push off (also along)1740
to go it1797
to walk one's chalks1835
morris1838
scat1838
go 'long1859
to take a walk1881
shoot1897
skidoo1905
to beat it1906
to go to the dickens1910
to jump (or go (and) jump) in the lake1912
scram1928
to piss offa1935
to bugger off1937
to fuck off1940
go and have a roll1941
eff1945
to feck off?1945
to get lost1947
to sod off1950
bug1956
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
naff1959
frig1965
muck1974
to rack off1975
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [phrase]
here lies our way1609
go scrape!1611
off (with you)!1809
on your way1865
twenty-three skidoo1926
(get) on your bike1980
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Envoyer au grat, to send a grazing; a Maister to put away his man; (and, perhaps from this phrase came our contemptuous, Goe scrape).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scratch > with thorns, nails, claws, etc.
scrapec1430
to scratch out?1527
claut1596
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 113 The pryst demyd them devylles both, wyth them he wolde not mett; He sparyd nother hylle, nor holte, busche, gryne, nor grett; Lord! he was fowle scrapyd!
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > knocking, etc., as signal > knock, etc., as signal [verb (transitive)] > scrape as signal
scrapec1460
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (transitive)] > scratch or scrape > as a signal
scrapec1460
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape > as a signal
scrape1718
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 481 Ȝit trowid he no gyle, but went nere to, And scrapid the dorr welplich, & wynyd with his mowith.
1718 Free-thinker No. 24. 2 I hope We shall never..condescend to Scrape instead of Knocking at a Great Man's Door.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. iv. vi. 217 We came to the door of a second chamber, at which Fleuri scraped gently.
5.
a. (figurative of sense 3) ‘To gather by great efforts, or penurious or trifling diligence’ (Johnson); to amass, get possession of, collect, or bring together with difficulty. Now only with together or up.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > with difficulty
scrape1549
to grubble upa1690
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hijv It shuld not greue me..to scrape my lyuyng out of the harde stone walles, with my nayles.]
1549 J. Olde in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. Prol. sig. .iiiv Whan was there more haftyng and craftyng to scrape money together..than now?
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Northumberland xvi Who in my cause al that he could ey skrapte.
1588 Munday's Banq. Daintie Conceits, ‘The Statelie pine’ v The wealthy chuffe, that..scrapes and scratches all the mucke he may.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N6 Thereafter all that mucky pelfe he tooke,..The which her sire had scrap't by hooke and crooke. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 178 Busie..in scraping up money for such idle expences.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 2 We do amisse to spend seven or eight yeers meerly in scraping together so much miserable Latin, and Greek.
1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 142 But to make up this also he does corradere scrape together some things extrinsecal to the words of this authoritie.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 278 The greatest, but not best part of men..scrape up Wealth by Hooke, or by Crooke.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 24 The Prelaticall party complained, that, to swell a number, the non-conformists did not chuse, but scrape Subscribers.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 299. ¶2 By the Age of Five and twenty I had scraped together Four thousand two hundred Pounds, Five Shillings, and a few odd Pence.
1805 H. K. White Let. Apr. in Remains (1807) I. 153 The poor Tallow-Chandler, who..at length scraped money enough to retire.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 297 The fervent dean scraped together all his properties..to endow it [sc. a College].
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. x. 272 The first money he was able to scrape together by strict frugality.
1890 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe iii. 80 They really must scrape some men together to balance all these heavy girls.
b. to scrape (an) acquaintance: to get on terms of acquaintance with by careful effort and insinuation; rarely with up. So †to scrape kindred.‘A low phrase. To curry favour, or insinuate into one's familiarity’ (Johnson). Cf. to scratch acquaintance at scratch v. 6a.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > scrape acquaintance
to scratch acquaintance1582
to scrape kindred1600
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram xxxi. sig. C3 One newlie practiz'd in Astronomie..Would scrape (forsoth) acquaintance of the skie, And by his arte, goe knocke at heauen dore.
1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife F 1 b O this acquaintance was well scrapte of me.
1641 C. Burges Another Serm. House of Commons 58 Although God be gratiously indulgent, yet is he not inconsiderately prodigall of mercies to all that scrape acquaintance with him in their troubles.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 157 Affecting relation to Troy, and scraping kindred thence.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxi. 136 Mrs. Harris scrap'd Acquaintance with Mrs. Thomas.
1825 M. M. Sherwood Young Forester (Houlston Tr.) I. 5 He contrived to scrape acquaintance with certain smugglers.
1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury III. xviii. 242 Two or three of the inmates..with whom Jack had already scraped up an acquaintance.
1880 L. Oliphant Land of Gilead i. 8 After establishing ourselves..we went out to look about us, and scrape acquaintance with the people.
1904 F. Whishaw Lovers at Fault v. 43 Her two dearest friends had contrived to scrape acquaintance without introduction.
c. absol. and intransitive. To hoard up penuriously; to save or economize; to gather together money, etc. with labour and difficulty. Now chiefly dialect.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > be sparing or frugal [verb (intransitive)] > save
savea1450
scrape1552
to save up1715
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > earn one's living > struggle to
scratch1509
scrape1552
scrat1579
1552 H. Latimer Serm. St. Andrew's Day (1562) 120 They intend to gette that money agayne which they haue layed out, and afterwarde to scrape for purchasyng.
1552 H. Latimer Serm. 1st Sunday Epiph. (1584) 302 b Euery manne scrapeth for hymselfe.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 109 Zacheus, which before hee had seene Christ, knew nothing but to scrape; but as soone as he had heard Christ, all his minde was set vpon giuing.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. D3 Let them grieue, That scrape for wealth I will the poore relieue.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 285 She scraped and scraped at pleasure, till I was almost starved to death.
1835 Court Mag. 6 74/2 How he got it [so much money], save by scrape—scraping, the Lord alone knows.
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 133 You do have a hard time, don't you?..to slave and tug and scrape to get a house over your head.
d. In figurative phrase to scrape (the bottom of) the barrel (or bucket): to collect with difficulty something inferior; to obtain something (as by necessity) from a poor source. slang (originally U.S.).
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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (intransitive)] > with effort or out of desperation
to scrape (the bottom of) the barrel (or bucket)1942
1942 Time 12 Jan. 57/1 The medical profession..[is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket..than any other occupation, trade or profession.
1955 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 Oct. 1/1 It was built in the spring of 1864, when the Confederacy was scraping the bottom of its barrel of men and resources.
1957 Ess. in Crit. 7 342 I was scraping the barrel for evidence.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze viii. 203 The insistence of the Americans that the Casablanca assault should be much the strongest..meant scraping the bottom of the barrel to find extra ships, craft and crews.
1970 Times 5 Nov. 14/4 Professor Barlow explains how necessary it is to ‘scrape the barrel’ for even the most minor scraps of information.
1981 Times 18 Aug. 1/3 We shall have to pay something. I hope to be able to scrape the barrel and come up with something.
6. Used disparagingly for: To play (a fiddle); occasionally to scrape catgut; to play (a tune, etc.) on the fiddle. Cf. French râcler. Chiefly absol.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play fiddle
fiddle1377
crowd1589
scrape1599
to jig it1808
rasp1842
tweetle1912
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > play fiddle > play (tune) on
scrape1599
screed1821
1599 Warning for Faire Women i. 9 What, yet more cats guts? oh, this filthy sound Stifles mine ears..I'll cut your fiddle strings If you stand scraping thus to anger me!
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. sig. Gv They are but rozining sir, and theile scrape themselues into your company presently. Mono. Plague a their Cats guts, and their scraping.
1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. D3 You shall scrape, and Ile sing, A scuruie Dittie, to a scuruie tune.
a1672 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 189 Like contry fidlers [to] scrape for our livings.
1764 Oxf. Sausage 37 Save where some Fiddler scrapes a drowsy Tune.
1779 V. Knox Ess. (1782) I. lxxi. 310 It is..necessary to do little else than scrape and pipe.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 305 The musicians were still there,..scraping and twanging away.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton ix. 61 While fiddles, French-horns, and dulcimers, scraped and blew their worst.
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lviii. 580 He..was scraping consolation out of its deepest notes.
7. † c. transferred. To pass very closely along. Obsolete.
a. To rub harshly on (a surface) in passing along or over it, so as to cause abrasion or produce a grating noise; to draw (something) roughly over a surface.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scrape
shavec725
shrapec1000
claw1377
screeve?1440
scartc1480
gratec1530
rape1533
ruffle1615
corrade1646
comb1654
rasp1707
scrape1731
skin1795
scuff1897
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move with friction > move with friction along surface of
scrape1731
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (transitive)] > scratch or scrape
scrape1731
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move with friction
harlc1290
hirsle1711
scrape1871
1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 12 The chiming Clocks to Dinner call; A hundred Footsteps scrape the marble Hall.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iii. 56 Somebody happened to scrape the floor with his chair just then; which accidental sound..broke the charm.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xiii. 61 Turkey-cocks scrape their wings against the ground, and some kinds of grouse thus produce a buzzing sound.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 473/1 (Golf) Sclaff, to scrape the surface of the ground with the sole of the club head before striking the ball.
b. intransitive. To graze against or on.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > with friction
hirsle1513
rake1605
scrape1774
friction1842
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape
shrapec1000
scrub1596
rake1605
scrape1774
graislec1786
scratch1839
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape
scratch1671
scrape1774
scroop1787
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 344 When the animal therefore is compelled to make a step forward, it scrapes on the back of the nails along the surface.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 423 Fangs of broken ice, which scraped against the beach as the tides rose and fell.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > travel on outskirts
coast1553
scrape1603
skirt1623
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 750 Then scraping along the island Prochita.., he put into the bay of Pvteoli.
d. To draw one's feet noisily over the floor. Hence †transitive to insult by doing this in a public assembly (obsolete). Also to scrape down: to silence (a speaker) by making a noise with the feet.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by gesture
scrape1561
to fork the fingers1640
to cock one's nose (up)1692
to look down one's nose (at)1721
to do a Harvey Smith1973
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape > one's feet on floor or ground
scrape1561
scuffle1896
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > express disapproval of > by sound or exclamation
hootc1175
to clap out1550
explose?c1550
explode1563
hiss1598
exsibilate1601
to hum up, down1642
out-hiss1647
chuckle1681
catcall1700
scrape1773
groan1799
to get the (big) bird1825
boo1833
fie-fie1836
goose1838
sibilate1864
cluck1916
bird1927
slow handclap1949
tsk-tsk1966
tut1972
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking
to stop a person's mouthc1175
stilla1225
to keep ina1420
stifle1496
to knit up1530
to muzzle (up) the mouth1531
choke1533
muzzle?1542
to tie a person's tongue1544
tongue-tiea1555
silence1592
untongue1598
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
to bite in1608
gaga1616
to swear downa1616
to laugh down1616
stifle1621
to cry down1623
unworda1627
clamour1646
splint1648
to take down1656
snap1677
stick1708
shut1809
to shut up1814
to cough down1823
to scrape down1855
to howl down1872
extinguish1878
hold1901
shout1924
to pipe down1926
1561 [implied in: T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. K.iiv Then was there hard a great scraping of fete in the floore. (at scraping n. 1b)].
1773 J. Jebb in J. Disney Mem. in J. Jebb Wks. (1787) I. 57 The young men were offended at him [Wilgress] for his behaviour as proctor, and therefore scraped him. When the sermon was over, the vice-chancellor called to the proctors, to take the names of all the gentlemen in one of the galleries.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Scraping, a mode of expressing dislike to a person or sermon, practised at Oxford by the students, in scraping their feet against the ground during the preachment.
1832 Tour through College 25 in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1856) 403 They not unfrequently rose to open outrage or some personal molestation, as..‘scraping him’.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 749 Another [orator] was coughed and scraped down.
8. † b. transitive. to scrape a leg: to make a leg (see leg n. 4). Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To make obeisance, to bow drawing the foot back, ‘to make an awkward bow’ (Johnson).Often to bow and scrape, with contemptuous reference to over-ceremonious politeness or reverence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bow, kneel, or curtsey
loutc825
abowOE
bowa1000
kneel?a1000
kneec1000
crookc1320
to bow the knee1382
inclinec1390
crouchc1394
croukc1394
coucha1500
plya1500
to make or do courtesy1508
beck1535
to make a (long, low, etc.) leg1548
curtsya1556
dopc1557
binge1562
jouk1567
beckon1578
benda1586
humblea1592
vaila1593
to scrape a leg1602
congee1606
to give the stoop1623
leg1628
scrape1645
to drop a curtsy1694
salaam1698
boba1794
dip1818
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
1645 G. Gipps Serm. 12 Who will scrape to a keeper for a piece of Venison, who may have free accesse to the master of the game to aske and have?
1646 J. Whitaker Danger of Greatnesse 24 Have you not known some in a low condition, to bow and scrape?
1761 C. Churchill Rosciad 9 By turns transform'd into all kinds of shapes, Constant to none, F—te laughs, cries struts, and scrapes.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 78 He ducked with his head and shoulders, scraped with his more advanced hoof,..and withdrew to his own domains.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxv. 301 Bowing and scraping and rubbing his hands together.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bow, kneel, or curtsey
loutc825
abowOE
bowa1000
kneel?a1000
kneec1000
crookc1320
to bow the knee1382
inclinec1390
crouchc1394
croukc1394
coucha1500
plya1500
to make or do courtesy1508
beck1535
to make a (long, low, etc.) leg1548
curtsya1556
dopc1557
binge1562
jouk1567
beckon1578
benda1586
humblea1592
vaila1593
to scrape a leg1602
congee1606
to give the stoop1623
leg1628
scrape1645
to drop a curtsy1694
salaam1698
boba1794
dip1818
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. ii. 1212 His hungry sire will scrape you twenty legges, For one good Christmas meale.
1672 H. More Brief Reply 328 Scraping many legs to him, and desiring him to tell his demands.
1672 H. More Brief Reply 328 And scraping many Legs, asked a largess of the Knight.
1681 T. D'Urfey Progr. Honesty v. 5 Sure he has some suit to beg, That thus he sneaks and scrapes a Leg.
9.
a. intransitive. to scrape along: to manage or ‘get along’ with difficulty. to scrape through: to get through a trial, an examination, so as just to escape failure. Also with other adverbs or adverbial phrases in similar senses, as to scrape by, home, in, etc.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > act or live through difficulties
scamblec1571
scramble1670
shift1723
manage1762
scrub1831
to struggle on1837
scratch1838
widdle1844
to worry along1871
to scrape along1884
to get by1908
scuffle1939
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > pass along outskirts of
coastc1400
trend1580
banka1616
skirt1735
to scrape along1884
outskirt1898
society > education > educational administration > examination > examine a candidate [verb (transitive)] > pass an examination
pass1536
to scrape through1907
1884 W. Cudworth Yorks. Dial. Sketches 33 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Boath him an' his father hed scraped along withaht wommanly help.
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill iii. 51 We must mug up our ‘cons’ well enough to scrape along without ‘puns’ and extra school.
1907 E. Glyn Three Weeks i. 6 He scraped through his ‘Smalls’ and his ‘Mods’.
1927 Observer 18 Sept. 17/3 Mr. Blythe, who at the last election scraped home in Monaghan.
1928 Sunday Express 1 July 20/6 Smith fought out a grim battle with characteristic Scottish grit, but the little Sheffielder just scraped home.
1951 Sport 6 Apr. 17/2 The Airmen just scraped through with a 3–2 win.
1958 Times 16 Dec. 4/4 (heading) Chigwell scrape home.
1958 N.Z. Listener 23 May 6/4 We scraped in in that game, only because Elvidge scored his usual try... Otherwise, we were gone a million.
1966 Listener 1 Dec. 829/1 Osbert Lancaster..depends on words rather than drawing, understandably since his drawing..only just scrapes by.
1973 M. Woodhouse Blue Bone iv. 35 The family didn't get on with the Germans and they only just barely scraped by with the Communists.
1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions vii. 114 As long as he can shoot and ride, I suppose he'll scrape past.
b. transitive (causatively.) to scrape (a person) through: barely to enable him to get through.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > examine a candidate [verb (transitive)] > pass an examination > enable to pass
scrape1897
1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 243 A futile effort to scrape Billy through an examination.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 7 July 7/2 The..tests of fitness for promotion,..for which officers cram up a little theoretical knowledge, just sufficient to scrape them through.
c. To acquire or obtain (something) with difficulty. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > do, obtain, or produce with difficulty
struggle1889
scratch1922
scrape1963
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > with a struggle
conquer1676
scrape1963
1963 Guardian 9 Aug. 7/1 He read English at Oxford. ‘But I only scraped a third.’
1967 Listener 2 Mar. 283/1 The Congress Party, which has ruled the country since independence in 1947, has just managed to scrape a majority in the central parliament.
1980 Early Music 8 234/1 Nor does castrato appear in the index (though Farinelli scrapes a mention).
Compounds
C1. in contemptuous designations of persons.† scrape-all n. Obsolete (see quot. 1699).† scrape-good n. Obsolete a miser, also adj. miserly.† scrape-pelf n. Obsolete† scrape-penny n. Obsolete† scrape-scall n. Obsolete a miser.† scrape-shoe n. Obsolete ? an obsequious person, a toady.
ΚΠ
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Scrape-all, a Money-Scrivener; also a miserable Wretch, or griping Fellow.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Caqueduc, a niggard, micher, miser, scrape-good.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. iv. 45 None will be there..a Scrape-good Wretch, or churlish hard-hearted Refuser.
scrape-gut n. a fiddler.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > fiddler
fiddlera1100
gigoura1300
minikin tickler1607
scraper1611
gut-vexer1640
rosin-the-bow1767
fiddle1773
scrape-gut1837
bosh-man1846
bosh-faker1859
bosh-killer1935
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. v. 152 I greatly doubt, sir, you were born for nae better than a gangrelscrape-gut.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
a1640 W. Fenner Hidden Manna (1652) 28 No covetous, nor drunkard, scrape-pelfe, nor swearer,..partaketh of it with you.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers 3 b Assuring him yt he is to think wel of his master scrapepenie ye vsurer.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scraper, a miser; a man intent on getting money; a scrapepenny.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1602 Withals Dict. 80/1 Regarding nothing but the gaine, a Scraper, or scrape-scall.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
fly-
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. 9 Why how now? we three? Puritanicall Scrape-shoes, Flesh a good Fridayes?
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. i. 16 Live scrape-shoo, and be thankfull.
C2. † scrape-pan n. Obsolete an instrument for scraping a salt-pan.
scrape ceremony n. Ornithology a display by a bird, involving the excavation of a shallow pit in the ground and the pressing of the bird's breast into this, frequently performed during courtship.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > sexual display > scrape ceremony
scrape ceremony1926
1926 Huxley & Montague in Ibis 2 10 Nervous picking at grass..may be seen during incubation, scrape-ceremonies and before coition.
1949 Brit. Birds 42 8 Both sexes indulge in the ‘scrape’ ceremony and in many of the actions characteristic of nest-building.
1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles IX. 15 The main type of sexual behaviour preceding coition is the tail-display... At this stage the scrape-ceremony is very common, a typically male performance by which he lures the female to one scrape after another.
scrape-ceremonial adj.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [adjective] > of or relating to scrape ceremony
scrape-ceremonial1961
1961 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles X. 247 Dotterel and red-necked phalarope..share very similar scrape-ceremonial and egg-laying behaviour.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment
pail1481
walling-lead1611
walma1661
Neptune1662
loot1669
ship1669
clearerc1682
cribc1682
barrow1686
hovel1686
leach-trough1686
salt-pan1708
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
scrape-pan1746
taplin1748
drab1753
room1809
thorn house1853
thorn-wall1853
fore-heater1880
pike1884
trunk1885
1746 T. Lowndes Brine-salt Improved 10 And then instantly, with the common iron scrape-pan, stir the Brine very briskly in every part of the pan for about a minute.
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v.c1000- nastily
- nastin
- nastiness
- nastinesses
- nasturces
- nasturtian
- nasturtium
- nasturtium-red
- nasturtium-yellow
- nasturtiumred
- nasturtiums
- nasturtiumyellow
- nasty
- nasty man
- nasty neat
- nasty nice
- nasty particular
- nasty-looking
- nasty-minded
- nasty-mindedness
- nastygram
- nastylooking
- nastyminded
- nastymindedness
- nasus