grater

[ grey-ter ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that grates.

  2. any of various kitchen devices for grating food: a cheese grater.

Origin of grater

1
1400–50; late Middle English. See grate2, -er1

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How to use grater in a sentence

  • The Saints took advantage of the quietus, purchased a horse-mill and soon had it in operation, and released the family graters.

  • Some days are like tin cocoanut graters that everybody uses to grate you against and this was one for me.

    The Melting of Molly | Maria Thompson Daviess
  • Some days are like tin nutmeg-graters that everybody uses to grate you against, and this was one for me.

    The Melting of Molly | Maria Thompson Daviess
  • It always remains half caught in it and even pretty securely fixed by the graters on its back.

    The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre
  • At one end of the spout we nailed one of the graters, through which we intended to force the paste, to form the round seeds.

British Dictionary definitions for grater

grater

/ (ˈɡreɪtə) /


noun
  1. a kitchen utensil with sharp-edged perforations for grating carrots, cheese, etc

  2. a person or thing that grates

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