scrape

Meanings

1. To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
2. To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
3. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
4. To barely manage to achieve or attain.
5. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
6. To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
7. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
8. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
9. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
10. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.

1. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
2. The sound or action of something being scraped.
3. Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
4. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
5. An awkward set of circumstances.
6. A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
7. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
8. A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
9. A shave.
10. Cheap butter.
11. Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
12. A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.

Etymology

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 Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).