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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Re-grāte', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. REGRATED; p. pr. & vb. n. REGRATING.] [Prefix re and grate; Fr. regratter, to scratch or scrape again, to drive a huckster’s trade.]

  1. (Masonry.) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
  2. To offend; to shock. [Obs.] Derham.
  3. To buy, as provisions, in order to sell again in or near the same market or fair;—a practice which, by raising the price, was formerly treated as a public offense, and punishable.