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RASP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coarse file with sharp pointed projections

Synonyms:

rasp; wood file

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rasp" is a kind of...):

file (a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal)

Derivation:

rasp (scrape with a rasp)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Uttering in an irritated tone

Synonyms:

rasp; rasping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rasp" is a kind of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)

Derivation:

rasp (utter in a grating voice)

raspy (unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter in a grating voice

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "rasp" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue rasp

Derivation:

rasp; rasping (uttering in an irritated tone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Scrape with a rasp

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "rasp" is one way to...):

abrade; abrase; corrade; rub down; rub off (wear away)

"Rasp" entails doing...:

rub (move over something with pressure)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rasp (a coarse file with sharp pointed projections)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I passed my hand over the horny projections, and my teeth went on edge once more from the horrible rasping sensation produced.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Rasping up on either side, with oars trailing to save them from snapping, they poured in a living torrent with horrid yell and shrill whoop upon the defenceless merchantman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She saw before her only a boy, who was shaking her hand with a hand so calloused that it felt like a nutmeg-grater and rasped her skin, and who was saying jerkily:-

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But White Fang's throat had become harsh-fibred from the making of ferocious sounds through the many years since his first little rasp of anger in the lair of his cubhood, and he could not soften the sounds of that throat now to express the gentleness he felt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Champion Harrison had been shoeing a horse at the forge door, and when I got into the street I could see him with the creature’s hoof still under his arm, and the rasp in his hand, kneeling down amid the white parings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rasping, scorching sands were a man’s hard hands chafing my naked chest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As he spoke the cog rasped along the edge of the reef, and a long white curling sheet of wood was planed off from her side from waist to poop by a jutting horn of the rock.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had begun to romp with them in a feeble, awkward way, and even to squabble, his little throat vibrating with a queer rasping noise (the forerunner of the growl), as he worked himself into a passion.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was nothing that he liked to talk of more than his old battles, but he would stop if he saw his little wife coming, for the one great shadow in her life was the ever-present fear that some day he would throw down sledge and rasp and be off to the ring once more.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well might John rejoice, for was he not back in his native Hampshire, had he not Don Diego's five thousand crowns rasping against his knee, and above all was he not himself squire now to Sir Alleyne Edricson, the young Socman of Minstead lately knighted by the sword of the Black Prince himself, and esteemed by the whole army as one of the most rising of the soldiers of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)