Synonyms:
grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy
Meaning: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
grate, grating
Meaning: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
Usage examples
A sort of grating, grinding sound awakened her.
Then a small grating opened, and there appeared the tip of a huge nose, which belonged to the ugliest old woman that ever was seen.
The train was swinging along at a rapid rate, jarring from side to side; the step was a long one between the cars and there was no protecting grating.
On other occasions the fireman handled blazing wood and burning substances, and walked during five minutes upon an iron grating placed over flaming fagots.
But sometimes a young fellow would look up from his ledger, or out through the grating of his father's bank, and let his eyes follow Lena Lingard, as she passed the window with her slow, undulating walk, or Tiny Soderball, tripping by in her short skirt and striped stockings.
Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thenardier's part. Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth-hound.
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