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Definition of Scraped
1. scrape [v] - See also: scrape
Literary usage of Scraped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"What is scraped together by niggardliness, S. She has gotten a coof wi' a ...
What is scraped together in whatever way ; often applied to the heaps of mire ..."
2. The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and by Luther Emmett Holt (1917)
"A piece of rare round or sirloin steak, the outer part having been cut away, is
scraped or shredded with a knife; from one teaspoonful to one tablespoonful ..."
3. The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and by Luther Emmett Holt (1909)
"scraped Beef or Meat Pulp.—A rare piece of round or sirloin steak, the outer part
having been cut away, is scraped or shredded with a knife; one teaspoonful ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Here the engraving is done by a graver (burin) of prism form which scoops out a
strip of the metal nearly free from "burr," and easily scraped. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"The Dahomey village, with mud-daubed huts, on which are scraped queer animal and
bird figures, and its war-dance on a central platform, gives a real glimpse ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"Those persons scraped the lower surface of the ivory, to make it adhere to a
piece of wood to which it wa* afterwards glued. ..."
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