A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
Lances (only shown at Stoke D'Abernon) were commonly made of ash, about 13 feet long. A ring of metal (grate or grapper) was fastened to the shaft and during a fight[…]
To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
to grate a window
To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
Serving to gratify; agreeable.
Coho or Coffee[…]however ingrate or insapory it seems at first, it becomes grate and delicious enough by custom.
Obsolete spelling of great.
c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise He promisd her a grate reward
From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin crāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.
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I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.