Scrape - Law Dictionary Search Results
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To rub over the surface of something with a sharp or rough instrument to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface to grate harshly over to abrade to make even or bring to a required condition or form by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure cutting away excesses and superfluous parts to make smooth or clean as to scrape a bone with a knife to scrape a metal plate to an even surface...
Scraping
The act of scraping the act or process of making even or reducing to the proper form by means of a scraper...
curettage
surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity as the uterus by scraping with a curette the act of scraping with a curette...
Rasure, or Erasure
Rasure, or Erasure, the act of scraping or shaving.Means the scraping or shaving of a document's surface to remove the writing from it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 1268.Rasure of a deed, so as to alter it in a material part, without consent of the party bound by it, etc., will make the same void, and if it be rased in the date after delivery, it is said it goes through the whole. Where a deed by rasure, addition, or alteration becomes no deed, the defendant may plead non est factum, 5 Rep. 23, 119.A rasure or interlineation in a deed is presumed, in the absence of rebutting evidence, to have been made at or before its execution, but in a will it is presumed to have been made after its execution. See INTERLINEATION....
Boottopping
The act or process of daubing a vessels bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow sulphur and resin as a temporary protection against worms after the slime shells etc have been scraped off...
Bream
To clean as a ships bottom of adherent shells seaweed etc by the application of fire and scraping...
curettement
surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity as the uterus by scraping with a curette...
Curry
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping cleansing beating smoothing and coloring said of leather...
Dentiscalp
An instrument for scraping the teeth...
Erase
To rub or scrape out as letters or characters written engraved or painted to efface to expunge to cross out as to erase a word or a name...
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