grater

UK/ˈɡɹeɪtə/US/ˈɡɹeɪtɚ/

nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,481 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: graters

A grater is a metal tool with sharp holes that shreds cheese or carrots. A box grater, use the fine grater, wash the grater.

The holes are punched from the inside so the raised edges cut on the downward stroke, which is why grating upwards does nothing. A box grater gives several sizes on one tool and is the one worth owning.

Definitions of grater

1noungraterA metal tool with sharp holes that shreds cheese or carrots.B1+
“Rub the cheese against the grater to shred it.”
- Said"Mind your knuckles on the grater; I've done mine twice this week."
- WrittenThe graters stood in the drawer like small tin towers, sharp on every face.
- UsedRinse the grater at once, before the cheese dries in the holes.
- ContrastA grater, not a knife. A knife makes slices; a grater rubs food into crumbs. knife →
- Not thisA peeler is not a grater. A peeler takes off skin in strips; a grater shreds.
- Exchange"Where's the grater?""Drying. The fine side for the nutmeg."
- SimplyTake the grater. The carrot goes small.
Patterna cheese / box / fine grater · grate sth on a grater · grater holes · the coarse side of the grater

grater is a tool.

Remember it

GRATEr → the thing you GRATE on

It is grate + er: the metal box with sharp holes you grate the cheese on.

hooks ontograte

Where it comes from

Old French grateor comes from grater, to scrape, from a Germanic root. Scratch is a relative.

Old French
grateor
English, today
grater

From Old French grateor. See grate. by surface analysis, grate + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the Kitchen

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grater in the wild

A grater, also referred to as a shredder, is a kitchen utensil used to grate or shred foods into fine pieces.
Grater
A nutmeg grater, also called a nutmeg rasp, is a device used to grate a nutmeg seed.
Nutmeg grater
The grater may be combined with a compartment for storing the nutmeg seed between uses.
Nutmeg grater
There are three cylinders: a fine grater, medium grater, and a slice-producing cutter.
Mouli grater
Surform tools were called "cheese graters" decades before they entered the market as kitchen utensils used to grate cheese.
Surform

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Definitions of grater

1noungraterA metal tool with sharp holes that shreds cheese or carrots.B1+

“Rub the cheese against the grater to shred it.”

Said"Mind your knuckles on the grater; I've done mine twice this week."
WrittenThe graters stood in the drawer like small tin towers, sharp on every face.
UsedRinse the grater at once, before the cheese dries in the holes.
ContrastA grater, not a knife. A knife makes slices; a grater rubs food into crumbs. knife →
Not thisA peeler is not a grater. A peeler takes off skin in strips; a grater shreds.
Exchange"Where's the grater?""Drying. The fine side for the nutmeg."
SimplyTake the grater. The carrot goes small.

Patterna cheese / box / fine grater · grate sth on a grater · grater holes · the coarse side of the grater

grater is a tool.