rasp
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1. rasp - Noun
2. rasp - Verb
Meaning
The raspberry.
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.
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.
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.
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Briefly bursteth season brisk, Blasty north breeze racketh branch, Branches rasp each branch on each Tearing twig and tearing leafage.
His rasp and stammer at times suggest a raw young Michael J. Fox, without the ironic detachment.
Can be removed from fruit with a paring knife, but is easiest removed by a Microplane Zester (or a woodworking rasp).
He shifted his focus to other senses: the fine grains of snow sliding across his silken hide, the rasp of his claws on the ice, the looming and sudden gusting away of shadow-like forms against the ochre sky.
The former Walkmen frontman has developed an equally great solo career over the last decade, applying his unforgettable rasp to more stripped down arrangements.
The older of the two men is wiry with hands that rasp on the ropes as he draws in the anchor.