Definition of "nutmeg-grater" [nutmeg-grater]

• A device in various forms for grating nutmegs. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She saw before her only a boy, who was shaking her hand with a hand so calloused that it felt like a nutmeg-grater and rasped her skin, and who was saying jerkily: — The greatest time of my life."
• "You could cut her fingers off with a dull knife, or rub them off on a nutmeg-grater, and she would not experience the slightest sensation."
• "She had got the saucepan, and the spoon, and the tumbler, and the nutmeg-grater, and the wine — but not the egg, the sugar, or the spices — when she heard him above, walking backward and forward noisily in his room; exciting hi mself on the old subject again, beyond all doubt."