[rasp, rahsp] 
| 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. |
| 5. | to scrape or grate. |
| 6. | to make a grating sound. |
| 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. |
