Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rasp

plural of rasp

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.

(intransitive) To use a rasp. / (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps. / (transitive) To work something with a rasp.

(obsolete) The raspberry.

raspy / exasperating

A sound that rasps. / The act of rasping as with a file.

present participle of rasp

simple past tense and past participle of rasp

plural of rasping