rasp
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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.
Noun edit
rasp (plural rasps)
- 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.
- The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
- the rasp of her perpetual cough
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coarse file
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sound made by a rasp
Verb edit
rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)
- (intransitive) To use a rasp.
- (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
- 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.
- (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
- to rasp wood to make it smooth
- to rasp bones to powder
- (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.
Translations edit
to use a rasp
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to make a noise like that of a rasp
to work something with a rasp
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Etymology 2 edit
From raspberry.
Noun edit
rasp (plural rasps)
- (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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Etymology edit
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)
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rasp
- inflection of raspen:
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Danish raspe (“to grate”), from German.
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rasp m
See also edit
- brauðmylsna (“breadcrumbs”) (non-culinary)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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rasp
- imperative of raspe