English-Finnish translations for rasp

• raspi
• raspata
• rähinä
• rähistä

Definition 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
• To use a rasp
• To work something with a rasp
• To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language
• The raspberry

Examples

• the rasp of her perpetual cough
• to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder
• Some sounds rasp the ear.
• His insults rasped my temper.

Related words

• raspberry
• grasp
• rasputitsa
• grasping
• intraspecific
• raspy
• infraspecific
• supraspinatus
• graspable