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Rasp v. t. (past & past part. rasped; pres. part. rasping)

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.

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Etymology of 'Rasping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rasping" Quotes from Famous Books

... hours of brutal strength sufficed to lay it low. Which of these dolts could make a tree? I'd like to see them do anything like it. How noisy and clumsy are all their movements,—chopping, pounding, rasping, hammering. And, after all, what do they build? In the forest we do everything so quietly. A tree would be ashamed of itself that could not get its growth without making such a noise and dust and ...

— Queer Little Folks • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... pressed till the iron railings cut her shoulders. She stretched the forefinger of her extended arm; at great peril of slipping forward and rasping her nose along the rails effected to scratch the top of the ...

— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

... it hanging by the lashings, which were then cut adrift. The Webb passed up following the Queen. The latter, having gained sufficient distance, turned and charged down, but as the Indianola was turning up at the same moment the blow on the starboard bow glanced, the vessels rasping by each other; and as the Queen cleared the stern of her enemy, the latter planted two IX-inch shot successfully, killing 2 and wounding 4 of her crew and disabling two guns. During all this time ...

— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan

... listening. There were the thud of hammers, the rasping of a saw, and the clatter of wood from the other side ...

— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle

... none," returned Raikes with a rasping lack of emotion, "for the last ten years. It is too late to begin to ...

— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder

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