Word Meaning

rasps definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for rasps

- A coarse file
- Abrade
- Coarse file
- File found on berry
- Grate bread sops evenly
- Grating noise breaks up every second
- Harsh grating noise
- Irritate
- Scrape
- Sound harsh
- toolbox item
- Utter gratingly
- Abrades
- Coarse files
- Croaks
- Files
- Irritates
- Utters gratingly