Crossword clues for grater
grater
- Cheese gadget
- Cheddar shredder
- Traditional Jamaican music maker
- Tool useful for latke-making
- Pizzeria-kitchen utensil
- Pizzeria gadget
- Parmesan preparer's need
- Parmesan preparer
- Mozzarella device
- Latke maker's need
- It's used to shred a block of cheese
- It may generate zest
- Cheese-shredding item
- Cheese-shredding gadget
- Gadget for cheese
- Kitchen gadget often used for cheese
- Trattoria gadget
- Kitchen tool
- Gadget for Parmesan
- Utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese)
- Kitchen utensil
- Good amount to pay to get right bit of kitchen equipment
- Kitchen utensil more important, we're told
- Reportedly better kitchen implement
- Kitchen device
- Cheese shredder
- Cheese ____
- Shredding tool
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grater \Grat"er\, a. [From Qrate, v.] One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instrument for scraping (bread, ginger, etc.), late 14c., from Old French grateor, agent noun from grater (see grate (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. A tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump.
WordNet
n. utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese)
Wikipedia
Image:Cheese grater.jpg|A box grater with multiple grating surfaces Image:Kuechenreibe fcm.jpg|Box grater with vegetable slicing surface displayed
A grater (also known as a shredder) is a kitchen utensil used to grate foods into fine pieces. It was invented by François Boullier in the 1540s, originally to grate cheese.
Usage examples of "grater".
Gorwing roared, pounding on the front door of the Anything Shoppe with force enough to set adance the two sets of pony harness and the cabbage grater that hung against it.
In this cup the woman skilled as a goddess mixed them a strong drink with Pramnian wine, over it shredded goat cheese with a bronze grater and scattered barley into it, glistening pure white, then invited them to drink when she had mulled it all.
There was a grater in the utensil drawer and he ran a block of American cheese along it, making a small pile that he sprinkled into the eggs.
He whispered, remember, that this somebody was hoarse as a grater and nevertheless chain-smoked all day long.
The first time the anti-missile screen would intercept them, maybe even the second, but then it would look like a cheese grater.
When it was done, Harris decided that it looked like a cheese grater designed by a serial killer.
After lying there on separate sides of the bed for what might be twenty minutes with Courtney whimpering about Luis and antique cutting boards and the sterling silver cheese grater and muffin tin she left at Harry's, she then tries to give me head.
If I were to let go, the Coriolis force would rub me against the ladder like a cheese grater at two hundred kilometers per hour, leaving a greasy red smear.
Lightbulbs, brooms, doorknobs, boat winches, birdcages, enameled pots, fans, axes, knives, brushes of all kinds, paints and varnishes and oils, spools of string, cheese graters, meat grinders, jelly glasses, toilet plungers, ice skates (ice skates!
Poultry shears, cheese graters, broken wine goblets, and metal disks from food mills joined forces with knives of all sizes to hunt down his hands in the murky waters and nick, puncture, scrape, and slice.
Seating himself astride the three-legged stool to which the grater of pearl shell was lashed, he began to scrape out the coconut meat, a crinkled, snowy shower that soon filled his wooden bowl.
An armory of knives, graters, skewers, roasting forks, and nut-and-bone crackers hung above the hearth on meat hooks, and a great black warming stone sat in the middle of the flames.
Yet today he is known (and only to a few specialists, at that) for an improved blacksmiths bellows in the year 1785, for a certain modification (not fundamental) in the moldboard plow about 1805, for a better (but not good) method of reefing the lateen sail, for a chestnut roaster, for the Devils Claw Wedge for splitting logs, and for a nutmeg grater embodying a new safety feature.
Amid the general rick-rack -- tongs, peelers, graters, paring knives, and garbage-bag ties -- was a small treasure-trove of batteries, mostly C-cells and square nine-volts.
She had forgotten the Don's bowl of grated Parmesan cheese, and Pippi went into the kitchen for the grater and brought the bowl to the Don.