Grate \Grate\, a. [L. gratus agreeable, grateful: cf. It. & Sp. grato. See Grace, and cf. Agree.] Serving to gratify; agreeable. [Obs.] --Sir T. Herbert.
Grate \Grate\, v. i. 1. To make a harsh sound by friction.
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree. --Shak.
2. To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.
This grated harder upon the hearts of men. --South.
Grate \Grate\, n. [LL. grata, fr. L. crates hurdle; or It. grata, of the same origin. Sae Crate, Hurdle.] 1. A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. ``A secret grate of iron bars.'' --Shak.
2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
{Grate surface} (Steam, Boiler) the area of the surface of the grate upon which the fuel lies in the furnace.
Grate \Grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grating}.] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.
Grate \Grate\, v. t. [OF grater to scrape, scratch, F. gratter, LL. gratare, cratare; of German origin; cf. OHG. chrazz[=o]n G. kratzen, D. krassen, Sw. Kratta, and perh. E. scratch.] 1. To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
On their hinges grate Harsh thunder. --Milton.
2. To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
3. To fret; to irritate; to offend.
News, my good lord Rome . . . grates me. --Shak.
I find good pasta irresistible when simply tossed in melted butter and served with a hunk of Parmesan cheese to grate over it at table.
The spokeswoman for UCLA Medical Center said Tuesday she had no other information about Boone, 55, who was injured Saturday when his bicycle's front wheel caught in a metal grate.
A grain-wagon manufacturer tests a grate to keep children from falling into corn loads and suffocating.
Instead of the moving cylinder and stationary grate found in conventional combines, Mr. Underwood uses a fast-moving cylinder inside a slower revolving outer cylinder to separate grain from chaff.
"It's a whole social service delivery problem," he says. "Housing just happens to be the most visible piece of that, especially when you see somebody sleepoing on a grate.
One love, one heart, one heart warming everyone." Perhaps his biggest innovation in children's entertainment may be that in gearing his songs to a young audience he didn't forget that they shouldn't grate on an older one either.
The rationalisation costs accompanying the Thomas Cook alliance also appear unexpectedly large. That must grate with shareholders.
Po Chu-i's "Better Come Drink With Me," a ninth-century classic, is intoxicating; had Carrie Nation read it she might have lived out her days sipping gin atop a steam grate.
But the shrimpers loudly protested use of the TEDs, an oval-shaped metal grate about four feet in diameter that is place inside the funnel-like shrimp nets to allow large animals such as turtles to be diverted and escape through a special trap door.
The water pressure pinned them against a steel grate." When rescue crews arrived at 6:10 p.m., the boys had been trapped in the 6-foot diameter tunnel for 20 minutes, Balser said.
"We got the grate off and Andy got down in there and started handing them out," said Plotzke of Monday's incident.
Justice Department security chief D. Jerry Rubino said the fence was being built as a security precaution because the grate covers a steam tunnel to the agency's headquarters and other government buildings nearby.
Severe storms last winter caused between $30 million and $40 million damage on and around the pier, and on Jan. 31, opne person was killed and nine others were injured when a steel grate atop a parking structure collapsed.