Scraping

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Scrape.

II. Scraping ·noun The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.

III. Scraping ·adj Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.

IV. Scraping ·noun Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.