scraping

• ⇰ The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
• ⇰ Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; <as>as, the <ex>scraping</ex> of the street</as>.

• ⇰ Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; <as>as, a <ex>scraping</ex> noise; a <ex>scraping</ex> miser</as>.