LekhoriLekhoriTo remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Pr...
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The sound or action of something being scraped.
For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs.
Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
A little solace came at tea time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half-slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: […]