When you rasp, you either file wood with a metal tool, or you speak in a harsh, irritating voice. Your rasp y voice might get you a gig as a lounge singer, but probably not as a preschool teacher.
To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file;
Noun
a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
Noun
uttering in an irritated tone
Verb
utter in a grating voice
Verb
scrape with a rasp
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v.
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.
v.
The raspberry.
Rasp
Rasp
To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file;
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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