Sense

1. scraping the surface, grazing

Examples

• τῷ δ’ ἑτέρῳ μιν πῆχυν ἐπιγράβδην βάλε χειρὸσ δεξιτερῆσ, σύτο δ’ αἷμα κελαινεφέσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 14:5)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.