noun
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a kitchen utensil with sharp-edged perforations for grating carrots, cheese, etc
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a person or thing that grates
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Origin of grater
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When the skin has collapsed into your palm like a deflated balloon, you lift the box grater and discover an almost implausible amount of ruby pulp underneath it.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
This inner surface was covered with small teeth called denticles, forming a rough grinding area similar to a cheese grater.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
Handcrafted from an 18th-century original, this grater nestles neatly in a bowl for shredding cheese or vegetables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
The wiring diagram was made by slicing up a fly brain using what is essentially a microscopic cheese grater, photographing each of the 7,000 slices and digitally putting them altogether.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
With a nail we punch a lot of holes in a pot lid and there we have a grater.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The newly designed tapered glass jar is meant to be saved: It’s emblazoned with screen-printed graphics of kitchen tools created by Auge Design — stylized potholders, graters, spoons, cups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
But Peter Miller Books also sells cheese graters.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
Hanukkah, the Jewish celebration of light, is just around the corner and you can bet we're breaking out the frying pans, potato graters, and tons of oil.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021
The tool is synonymous with Microplane, the brand most of us think of when it comes to rasp-style graters.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2019
Their surfaces are scattered with beakers, tubes, droppers, spoons, a set of mortars and pestles, and graters.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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