grate

1. 1

   A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

   • The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
2. 2

   A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

   • With the exception of two handsome ornaments in front, it has the same appearance as any other parlor grate, yet by a simple scientific evaporating apparatus, from thirty to sixty gallons of water, if required, can be evaporated during the
3. 3

   A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.historical

   • Lances (only shown at Stoke D'Abernon) were commonly made of ash, about 13 feet long. A ring of metal (grate or grapper) was fastened to the shaft and during a fight[…]

syn. grill

1. 1

   To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.transitive

   • to grate a window

1. 1

   To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.transitive

   • I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
2. 2

   To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.intransitive

   • Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
   • The chalk grated against the board.
3. 3

   To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.broadlyintransitive

   • She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
4. 4

   To annoy.broadlytransitive

   • 2015', Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.

1. 1

   Serving to gratify; agreeable.obsolete

   • Coho or Coffee[…]however ingrate or insapory it seems at first, it becomes grate and delicious enough by custom.

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   Obsolete spelling of great.alt-ofobsolete

   • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise He promisd her a grate reward