He was gurgling happily, examining a ball, a cheese grater and a linen baby book, all with perfunctory interest.
"The Ultroom Error"
Gerald Allan Sohl
The ship was terribly cut up and crippled in her sails and rigging-lifts and braces shot away; her stern was literally riddled like a grater, and both large and small shot, in great numbers, had entered her hull and were sticking to her sides.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
When a pinch was wanted, the root was drawn a few times over the iron rasp, and so the snuff was produced and could be offered to a friend with much more grace than under the above-mentioned process with the pocket-grater.
"The Social History of Smoking"
G. L. Apperson