1. a kitchen tool with a rough surface used for grating food into small pieces

Examples

• She used a cheese grater to make fresh parmesan for the pasta.
• The recipe calls for grated lemon zest, so I’ll need the fine grater.
• He scraped his knuckles on the grater while grating carrots.
• The box grater has different sized holes for various grating needs.
• Mom grated fresh ginger with the microplane grater.
• The old metal grater left rusty flakes in the cheese.