rasp
pronunciation
How to pronounce rasp in British English:
UK [rɑ:sp]
How to pronounce rasp in American English:
US [ræsp]
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- Noun:
- uttering in an irritated tone
- a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
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- Verb:
- scrape with a rasp
- utter in a grating voice
Word Origin
- rasp (v.)
- mid-13c., "to scrape," from Middle Dutch raspen and from Old French rasper (Modern French râper) "to grate, rasp," which is perhaps from a West Germanic source (compare Old English gehrespan) akin to the root of raffle. Vocalic sense is from 1843. Related: Rasped; rasping.
- rasp (n.)
- "coarse file," 1540s, from Middle French raspe (Modern French râpe), from Old French rasper "to rasp" (see rasp (v.)).
Example
- 1. And yet another will call it a rasp riffler .
- 2. Against the strop , the familiar rasp of his voice
- 3. It then used the rasp on the scoop at the end of the arm to make 50 scrapes in the ice and then heaped the scrapings into little piles each with about two to four teaspoonfuls of ice .
- 4. My voice came out sounding rasp .
- 5. Learn to control rasp and phlegm .