scraping

Denman is noted for several signature phrases, such as “they will need wings to catch him” or “coming like an express train” or “scraping the paint” when a horse was on the rail.

He also would refer to horses close to the rail as “scraping the paint.”

Workmen scraping wood floors in a room that would become the artist’s studio.

"Their entire universe is being bulldozed by a massive slab of ice scraping along the sea floor," says Prof Griffiths.

The voice could grumble and soar, scraping the deepest recesses of evil and reaching the high-pitched cajoling of a championship schemer.