- Become tattered
- Conflict
- Cook coming to grips with a fight
- Cook coming to grips with first fight
- fight
- Noisy quarrel
- Rub or wear away
- Apparently purse swayed convert
- Bring about
- Coax
- Convince
- Dispel doubts of
- Urge to have purse weighed, reportedly
- Wear down
- A little sombrero, designed to wear away
- Break down in Greater Odessa
- Corrode
- Destroy by degrees
- Destroy by weathering
- Deteriorate
- Eat away
- Chafe
- Erode
- Graze
- Graze harshly
- Grind down a bread roll
- Make rough
- Rub
- Bacon edge
- Cheese covering
- Coating on cheese
- Edge of a bacon rasher
- Firm outer coating ((of fruit, cheese etc.)
- Fruit peel
- Fruit skin
- Break down chemically
- Demote
- Lower in rank
- Put down below C grade, we hear
- Reduce in rank
- Reduce in worth
- Reduce worth to below C-grade
- Broad smile should end hard work
- Crush (coffee)
- Crush in a mill
- Dreary routine
- Gnash (teeth)
- Grate together
- Hard work at the mill?