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Grater   /grˈeɪtər/   Listen
Grater

noun
1.
Utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese).






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"Grater" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature. You must translate the effect of nature into clay, and in the case of the stamens you will find it a good plan to build up the centre of the flower, and then press into it a pointed stick, repeating the operation until the whole of the centre is perforated, as it were, like a grater. ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. • Various

... After removing the crust off a 5 cent loaf of stale bread grate on a grater and pour 1 pint milk over it; then stir 2 tablespoonfuls butter with 4 tablespoonfuls sugar to a cream, add the yolks of 7 eggs, 4 tablespoonfuls finely cut citron, 1/4 pound well cleansed seedless raisins, the ...
— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke

... red stalks with large leaves. There are two species, the sweet and bitter cassava. The bitter is excessively poisonous till exposed to the heat of fire. The root is like a coarse potato. It is dried and then grated on a grater formed by sharp pebbles stuck on a board, and the juice which remains is then pressed out by means of an elastic basket, into which the grated root is stuffed. The farina thus produced is made into thin cakes and baked. Tapioca ...
— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston

... is not happy in his married life, nor does it seem to us that he goes the right way to be so. He calls his wife "his old Dutch clock," "the old geyser," and such like terms of endearment, and addresses her with such remarks as "Ah, you old cat," "You ugly old nutmeg grater," "You ...
— Stage-Land • Jerome K. Jerome

... through the grain, and with a knife scrape the pulp from the cob, or grate it with a coarse grater, and to about a quart of the pulp, add two eggs beaten, two table-spoonsful of flour, a little salt and pepper, and a small portion of thin cream, or new milk; beat the whole together; have the butter or lard hot in the pan, and put a large spoonful in at a ...
— Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea


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