grater

From Old French grateor. See grate.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: grāt'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtə/
• (US) enPR: grāt'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Homophone: greater

grater (plural graters)

1. a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump

   I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 115:

     As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.

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• Trager, garret, garter

• gratter

Borrowed from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną.

grater

1. to scrape (come into physical contact with in a way that causes damage)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grater, supplement)
• grater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub