rasp

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English

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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

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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

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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. To say in a raspy voice.
  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

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From raspberry.

Noun

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rasp (plural rasps)

  1. (obsolete) The raspberry.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], 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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Dutch

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Etymology

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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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Noun

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rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

Verb

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rasp

  1. inflection of raspen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Danish raspe (to grate), from German.

Noun

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rasp m

  1. (cooking) breadcrumbs

See also

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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rasp

  1. imperative of raspe