Meaning

3 senses
  1. A kitchen implement with small holes, used for grating cheese and sometimes other food such as carrots.

    Modern cheese graters have more than one side so the cheese can be sliced in different ways.

    Käsereibe

  2. A woodworking tool for rapidly removing wood from a surface.

  3. (Cockney, slang)A waiter.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I ordered a cheese grater online.

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  2. Listening to her vocals is like running a cheese grater against my brain.

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  3. Yanni tortured Skura with a cheese grater.

  4. She sent a man on horseback to borrow a cheese grater from the neighboring Mongol encampment.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
kitchen implement used for grating food products such as cheese:
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