2. To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her
like the top of a rock. --Ezek. xxvi.
4.
3. To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather
in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire
avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by
together or up; as, to scrape money together.
The prelatical party complained that, to swell a
number the nonconformists did not choose, but
scrape, subscribers. --Fuller.
4. To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as
a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the
floor; -- usually with down. --Macaulay.
{To scrape acquaintance}, to seek acquaintance otherwise than
by an introduction. --Farquhar.
He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed
ignominiously. --G. W. Cable.
2. To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he
scraped and saved until he became rich. ``[Spend] their
scraping fathers' gold.'' --Shak.
3. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like
instrument.
4. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when
making a bow.
2. A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow
made with that accompaniment. --H. Spencer.
3. A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which
one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful
rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through
thick and thin has led him into many of these
scrapes. --Bp.
Warburton.