Read full poem →To willow twigs, sang longer than the lark,
Quick, shrill, or grating, a song to match the heat
Of the strong sun, nor less the water's cool,
Dictionary Entry
To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
In a Sentence
“to grate a window”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gratingsound gratinggrating diffractiongrating irongrating bragggrating concave
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Poetry examples for “grating”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →An echo of the dungeon stone,
A grating sound, not full and free,
As they of yore were wont to be:
Read full poem →And, as thou knowest that for me
Soon turns the Haram's grating key,
Before the guardian slaves awoke
Read full poem →Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, 10
Read full poem →Where the sea meets the moon-blanched sand,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
Read full poem →Were but one echo from a world of woes—
The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Read full poem →Were but one echo from a world of woes--
The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Read full poem →from the Latin _fretum_, a strait; and Hales from _ferrum_, iron,
through the Italian _ferrata_, an iron grating. It is more likely
(see Stratmann and Wb.) from the A. S. _frætu_, an ornament.
Read full poem →describe, as now almost begun; but I felt that it was improper, and
most grating to the feelings of the afflicted, to say to them that the
memory of their affliction would in time become a constant part, not