GRATE, GRATING (sound)
ADJECTIVES
• RASPY of a rasping nature; harsh, grating …1838
• YARKING grating, harsh …1895 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
• CRANK a harsh or grating sound …1786 Sc.
• RASHING a succession of harsh grating sounds …1889
• SCREEK a harsh, grating noise …1893 Eng. dial.
• SCREIGH a shriek; a shrill cry, esp. of a bird; an urgent, irresistible call; a harsh, grating sound …1685 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCURR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
• SKIRR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
• SKREEK a harsh, grating noise …1893 Eng. dial.
• SKURR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
VERBS
• CRAKE to grate harshly; to creak. as the hinge of a door …1657 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• CRANK to make a harsh, jarring, or grating sound …1827
• JAR to produce a harsh or grating sound on or as on a musical instrument …1581 obs.
• MYE to crumble or grate bread, etc. …1381 obs.
• RASP * to utter with a grating sound …1843
• SCRAWK to make a harsh, grating noise; to squeak; to scream. to shriek …1880 Eng. dial.
• SCREAK to squeak, to squeal, to creak; to grate …1843 Amer. dial.
• SCREEK to creak; to make a grating noise …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCREIGH to shriek, to scream, esp. used of birds; to neigh; to make a harsh, grating sound …1685 Sc. & N. Ireland
• SCRINGE to creak; to make a grinding, grating sound; to crackle, as ice when it gives to the tread …1853 Ireland
• SCRIPET to creak, to grate, as the ungreased wheel of a barrow …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SHIVER to grate, as potatoes …1901 Amer. dial.
• SKREAK to squeak, to squeal, to creak; to grate …1843 Amer. dial.
• SKREEK to squeak, to squeal, to creak; to grate …1843 Amer. dial.
• SKRINGE to creak; to make a grinding, grating sound; to crackle, as ice when it gives to the tread …1853 Ireland
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