Anagrams of: REGRATINGS

• a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

• fasten with or as if with a garter

• a criminal who is a member of gang

• commanding attention

• a person who operates a farm

• a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)

• anything regarded as making something unclean

• lubricate with grease

• lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun

• a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen

• an act that sets in motion some course of events

• put in motion or move to act

• release or pull the trigger on

• wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound