grater
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɡɹeɪtə/
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/ˈɡɹeɪtə/ · /ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/ (US)
Definition of grater
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump
“I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?”
“As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.”
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noun
-
a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump
“I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?”
“As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French grateor. See grate. By surface analysis, grate (“to scrape, etc.”) + -er.
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