WordNet Dictionary- [n] a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him"
- [n] a harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
- [n] a fragment scraped off of something and collected (usually plural); "they collected blood scrapings for analysis"
Webster's 1913 Dictionary\Scrap"ing\, n. 1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
\Scrap"ing\, a. Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser. -- {Scrap"ing*ly}, adv.