rasp

• IPA^(key): /ɹæsp/, /ɹɑːsp/

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• Rhymes: -æsp, -ɑːsp

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.

rasp (plural rasps)

2. A coarse file or filelike tool, 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.

   Hypernyms: file (sometimes construed as coordinate) < tool

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

   Coordinate term: grating

   the rasp of her perpetual cough

• file

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. (ambitransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.

   Some sounds rasp the ear.

   His insults rasped my temper.

From raspberry.

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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• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, sapr-, spar

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16th century, from Middle French raspe, from Old French raspe (“steel file”); see modern French râper (“to grate”).

rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

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

• raspen

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rasp

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

Borrowed from Danish raspe (“to grate”), from German.

rasp n (genitive singular rasps, no plural)

1. (cooking) breadcrumbs

• brauðmylsna (“breadcrumbs”) (non-culinary)

rasp

1. imperative of raspe