Usually means: Metal framework with crossing bars.
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  1. grate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grate, grate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grate, grate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grate, grate: Wordnik
  7. grate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grate: Wiktionary
  9. grate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grate, grate: Dictionary.com
  13. grate (n.), grate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grate (disambiguation), Grate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grate: Rhymezone
  19. grate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. grate: Free Dictionary
  22. grate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. grate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grate: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

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  1. grate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. grate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. grate: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grate: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
noun:  A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
noun:  (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
verb:  (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
verb:  (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.
adjective:  Obsolete spelling of great. [Taking much space; large.]

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