A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

(historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.

(transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.

(transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.

(intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.

(by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.

(by extension, transitive) To annoy.

Obsolete spelling of great