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rasp

[rasp, rahsp]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.

2.	to scrape or rub roughly: The glacier rasped the valley floor.

3.	to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves.

4.	to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an answer.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to scrape or grate.

6.	to make a grating sound.

–noun

7.	an act of rasping.

8.	a rasping sound.

9.	a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.

10.	(in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.

Origin:
1200–50; ME raspen < OF rasper to scrape, grate < Gmc; see rape ³

Related forms:

raspish, adjective

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rasp (rāsp)

v. rasped, rasp·ing, rasps

v. tr.

To file or scrape with a coarse file having sharp projections.
To utter in a grating voice.
To grate on (nerves or feelings).

v. intr.

To scrape harshly; grate.
To make a harsh grating sound.

A coarse file with sharp, raised, pointed projections.
The act of filing with a rasp.
A harsh grating sound.

[Middle English raspen, from Middle Dutch raspen and Old French rasper, of Germanic origin.]
rasp'er n., rasp'ing·ly adv.

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Rasp

Rasp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rasped; p. pr. & vb. n. Rasping.] [OF. rasper, F. r[^a]per, to scrape, grate, rasp, fr. OHG. rasp[=o]n to scrape together, to collect, probably akin to E. rap. Cf. Rap to snatch.]

1. To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

2. Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.

Rasp

Rasp\, n. [OE. raspe, OF. raspe, F. r[^a]pe. See Rasp, v.]

1. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.

2. The raspberry. [Obs.] "Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller." --Bacon.

Rasp palm (Bot.), a Brazilian palm tree (Iriartea exorhiza) which has strong a["e]rial roots like a screw pine. The roots have a hard, rough surface, and are used by the natives for graters and rasps, whence the common name.

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Language Translation for : rasp

Spanish: pan rallado,

German: das Brotkrümel, das Paniermehl,

Japanese: パン粉

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rasp

c.1300, "to scrape," from M.Du. raspen, O.Fr. rasper "to grate, rasp," from a W.Gmc. source (cf. O.E. gehrespan) akin to the root of raffle (q.v.). Vocalic sense is from 1843. The noun meaning "coarse file" is from 1541, from M.Fr. raspe, from O.Fr. rasper "to rasp."

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