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 rasp on Wikipedia

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɹæsp/, /ɹɑːsp/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æsp, -ɑːsp

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (to tear). Compare Old High German raspōn (to gather, rake), Old English ġehrespan (to tear). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

 
Wood rasp

Noun edit

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
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Verb edit

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. To say in a raspy voice.
    • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      “No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron.
  4. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
    to rasp wood to make it smooth
    to rasp bones to powder
  5. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) 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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Etymology 2 edit

From raspberry.

Noun edit

rasp (plural rasps)

  1. (obsolete) The raspberry.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], 3rd edition, London: [] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.
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16th century, from Middle French raspe, from Old French raspe (steel file); see modern French râper (to grate).

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rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

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

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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: raspru
  • Papiamentu: raspu, rasp

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rasp

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

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From Danish raspe (to grate), from German.

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rasp m

  1. (cooking) breadcrumbs

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rasp

  1. imperative of raspe