rasp

From Middle English raspen, partly from Middle Dutch raspen and partly from Old French rasper; both ultimately from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to scrape”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

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• Rhymes: -æsp

rasp (plural rasps)

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 sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.

   the rasp of her perpetual cough

3. (obsolete) The raspberry.
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     Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.

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rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)

1. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
3. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.

   to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder

4. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.

   Some sounds rasp the ear.

   His insults rasped my temper.

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rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

1. grater, for example for cheese
2. surform tool

rasp

1. first-person singular present indicative of raspen
2. imperative of raspen

rasp

1. imperative of raspe