"rasp" Definition

Definitions for the word "rasp" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v.
The raspberry.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 coarse kind of file having separate teeth. 2 grating noise or utterance. v. 1 a scrape with a rasp. B scrape roughly. C (foll. By off, away) remove by scraping. 2 a make a grating sound. B say gratingly. 3 grate upon (a person or feelings). [french raspe(r)]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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