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▪ I. rasping, vbl. n.1|ˈrɑːspɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. rasp v.1]
1. The act of rubbing or scraping with or as with a rasp; a grating sound.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 33 b/2 When we perceave, in raspinge, the bone to give bloode from it. 1641[see rasp-house]. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 212 Either with Hewing, or as some Hard Woods and Ivory may require, with Rasping. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 91 There was much creaking of locks and rasping of bolts.
2. concr. in pl. Small particles produced by rasping. In mod. usage, spec. breadcrumbs made from baked or stale bread.
1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius i. i. 8 Take the shavings or raspings of a Skull that was never buried. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 343 Give him raspings of bread, which may be had of the London bakers for nine pence or 10 pence a strike. 1791Hamilton tr. Berthollet's Art of Dyeing I. i. i v. 101 Oak bark and raspings of heart of oak. 1846Jewish Manual Cookery 47 Butter a mold, sprinkle it with raspings. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 55 Quassia..is kept in the shops in billets and in raspings. 1945ABC of Cookery (Ministry of Food) iii. 14 Raspings, very fine crumbs obtained by grating the crust of stale bread on a fine grater. Browned breadcrumbs are sometimes called raspings. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 629/1 Sprinkle raspings over the fat of cooked ham. 1976M. Patten Barbecue 31/2 Cut the crusts from the loaf; these need not be wasted, but can be turned into crumbs (raspings) as described below.
3. attrib., as rasping-machine, rasping-mill.
1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. §83 A Rasping-Mill for Harts-horn. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 58 Rasping-mills for logwood. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1881/1 Rasping-machine.
▪ II. rasping, ppl. a.1|ˈrɑːspɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. rasp v.1 + -ing2.]
That rasps, in senses of the vb.
1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 168 Scraped with rasping Instruments. 1735W. Sewel Dutch Dict., Rasphuys boef, a Rasping rascal, a Bridewel-rogue. 1856Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 269 A cold, rasping, savage day; excruciating for sick nerves. 1873R. Broughton Nancy II. 146 He, in his raspingest voice, is giving his [valet] a month's warning.
b. Hunting. Difficult to take. Cf. rasper 2.
1829Sporting Mag. XXIII. 372 Many ox-fences and two rasping brooks. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag i, We'll..pick out rasping fences.
c. Extremely or unpleasantly rapid.
1875J. Grant One of the ‘600’ xi. 92 Away we went..at a rasping pace.
Hence ˈraspingly adv., in a rasping manner.
1883Harper's Mag. June 6/2 The wooden rattles with which..the people were raspingly summoned to public worship. 1887F. Warden Scheherazade II. i. 17 ‘Try it!’ said he raspingly.
▪ III. † ˈrasping, ppl. a.2 Obs.—1
[f. rasp v.2 + -ing2.]
Belching, emitting wind.
1629T. Adams England's Sickness Wks. I. 328 Let them..drink Cleopatra's draught..to ease their rasping stomacke. |