a fixed frame of bars or the like covering an opening to exclude persons, animals, coarse material, or objects while admitting light, air, or fine material.
“Go on then,” she said, as if humoring a grating younger sibling.
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But as the season wore on and her grating nerve wore down, I actually really warmed up to her.
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A stout woman with a grating voice, she asked, “So you think life is so good here in Ukraine?”
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Four years after “Safety Dance,” Men Without Hats returned with the grating ‘Pop Goes the World.’
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Your most grating acquaintance could – and usually would – bombard you with reams of unoriginal drivel at the press of a key.
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"She must have spilled the peroxide," he said with a grating laugh.
The White Shield|Myrtle Reed
But the idea of lying there on that narrow shelf, staring at the light from the grating, repelled her.
Jupiter Lights|Constance Fenimore Woolson
Yes,—I must prepare—go to the grating some of you, that they may not look in upon me.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the staves.
The Bible Story|Rev. Newton Marshall Hall
And so it was with Arthur: Adam's judgment of him, Adam's grating words, disturbed his self-soothing arguments.
Adam Bede|George Eliot
British Dictionary definitions for grating (1 of 2)
grating1
/ (ˈɡreɪtɪŋ) /
noun
Also called: gratea framework of metal bars in the form of a grille set into a wall, pavement, etc, serving as a cover or guard but admitting air and sometimes light
short for diffraction grating
British Dictionary definitions for grating (2 of 2)