scraping

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: scrap=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

scraping, n. 

•  The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.  [1913 Webster]
•  Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.  [1913 Webster]

scraping, a. 

 Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scraping, n.
1 in senses of SCRAPE v. & n.
2 (esp. in pl.) a fragment produced by this.

ROGET THESAURUS

scraping

Friction

N friction, attrition, rubbing, abrasion, scraping, confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub, elbow grease, rosin, massage, roughness, rolling friction, sliding friction, starting friction, anatriptic, attrite.