Definitions for rasp

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Spelling: [rasp, rahsp]

IPA: /ræsp, rɑsp/

Rasp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in rasp (aprs).

Definitions for rasp

noun

1. an act of rasping.
2. a rasping sound.
3. a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
4. (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.

verb (used with object)

1. to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
2. to scrape or rub roughly:
3. to grate upon or irritate:
4. to utter with a grating sound:

verb (used without object)

1. to scrape or grate.
2. to make a grating sound.

Origin of rasp

1200-50; Middle English raspen Old French rasper to scrape, grate Germanic; see rape³

Examples for rasp

We use the lightest shoe, truly fitted with the rasp, not burned on.

Using a rasp, zest the meyer lemon into the bowl and add the chopped herbs, anchovy, capers and a few grinds of black pepper.

His throat was like sandpaper and the words came out in a rasp.

But neither Gregory nor Dickie Lang heard the rasp of the starting mechanism.

Again she heard the rasp of his metallic voice with its brisk derision.

Instantly, with a rasp of thunder, it was gone, and the air was stifling.

The rasp of the hand-saw informed him that he had been obeyed.

I'll bet money she done it just t' rasp his feelin's—and she sure succeeded.

But why rasp your nerves and spoil your digestion by so fuming over their politics?

Chance for me to rasp him, hey, by wishing you onto the family?