raspingn.
/ˈrɑːspɪŋ/, /ˈraspɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræspɪŋ/ 1. The action or an act of rubbing or scraping with or as with a rasp; (also) the noise produced by this; a rough grating sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > grating or rasping
grating1611
raspa1828
risp1827
gride1830
skirrc1870
rashing1889
rasping1889
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 107v (MED) If þou clense þe boon with schauynge or raspynge, neþeles kynde wole aftirward remeuen aweye a newe schelle.
1565 J. Hall Anat. 3rd Treat. ii. 41 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. It appeareth by reason, that all cuttynges, raspynges, trepanynges, or boringes, are to be auoided in the seames of the scull.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vii. 39 The rasping and hard-scraping of the Cardinals.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 45 We were carried to see the Rasp-house, where the lusty Knaves are compelld to labour, and it is a very hard labour, the rasping of Brasill, & Log-wood for the Diers.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 220 Either with Hewing..or, as some Hard Woods and Ivory may require, with Rasping.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Roll Roll Tobacco is what is used both for chewing and rasping.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxxv. 419 His barber—a fellow who, from his merciless rasping, was called Blue-Skin.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xi. 91 There was much creaking of locks and rasping of bolts.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ix. 201 Likely they were as yet no more significant than the rasping of insects beyond the closedrawn windows.
1975 E. Baird Illustr. Guide Riding xxi. 146 Teeth..require frequent examination... Sharp edges may need rasping at..intervals.
1990 Horse & Pony 13 Sept. 24/2 A pony..could be: In pain from sharp teeth, which need rasping, or an injured back.
2. concrete. In plural. Small particles produced by rasping; (Cookery) fine dry breadcrumbs produced by grating the crust of baked or stale bread.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [noun] > that which has been ground
pounds1562
stamping1594
rapings1596
rasping1617
grating1725
pounding1872
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun] > bread-crumbs
breadcrumba1529
rasping1736
breading1868
panko1970
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 316 An Instrument called a Lenticular..to cleanse away all small shivers and raspings of bones.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. i. 8 Take the shavings or raspings of a Skull that was never buried.
1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum ii. 54 Take raspings of Guajacum four ounces.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 343 Give him raspings of bread, which may be had of the London bakers for nine pence or 10 pence a strike.
a1750 W. Gibson New Treat. Dis. Horses (1751) iii. viii. 315 The raspings of white bread may be boiled in all his water, which is both very nourishing and healing.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i v. 101 Oak bark and raspings of heart of oak.
1846 Lady Montefiore Jewish Man. 47 Butter a mold, sprinkle it with raspings.
1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 51 Quassia..is kept in the shops in billets and in raspings.
1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xiii. 83 Calcium decomposes water quietly, but in order to keep it in the form of raspings or filings, it is necessary to moisten it with naphtha.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 629/1 Sprinkle raspings over the fat of cooked ham.
1976 M. 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.
2003 S. Rivers & N. Umney Conservation of Furnit. x. 438 The ph values [of wood] were derived using a standard quantity of five parts distilled water in contact with one part of wood raspings or sawdust.
Compounds
rasping machine n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > rasping-machine
rasping mill1663
rasping machine1831
rasper1882
1831 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 2 No. 12. 898 The rasping machine is an iron cylinder of about 10 or 12 inches long, and of 30 inches in diameter.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 1881/1 Rasping-machine, 1. A machine for rasping wood and bark for making dyes, tinctures, etc.
1947 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 27 55 The group was also given a ten-year monopoly on a henequen rasping machine in August, 1830.
2003 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 14 May They could just rinse the roots with water to remove dirt and put them into a rasping machine right away.
rasping mill n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > rasping-machine
rasping mill1663
rasping machine1831
rasper1882
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §83 A Rasping-Mill for Harts-horn.
1870 Rep. U.S. Commissioners Paris Universal Expos. 1867 III. 313 The defribrer, a kind of rasping mill, in which the fibres of the wood are torn off and separated by the action of a coarse cylindrical stone..which is kept in constant revolution.
1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill xvi. 145 In Smeaton's Designs..are drawings which include designs of the following: Wakefield, Yorkshire. Oil and logwood rasping mill.
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† raspingadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
That emits wind; belching.
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1615 T. Adams Englands Sicknes ii. 57 Let them..drinke Cleopatras draught..to ease their rasping stomacke.
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raspingadj.2
/ˈrɑːspɪŋ/, /ˈraspɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræspɪŋ/ 1. That rasps (in various senses).Some quots. may represent the noun used attributively.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough
unsmeetheOE
sharpc893
rowOE
reofOE
roughOE
unplaina1393
harsha1400
scrofc1400
stourc1400
ruggyc1405
asperous1547
harshy1582
shagged1589
horrid1590
unsmooth1598
gross1606
asperate1623
brute1627
scabbed1630
sleazy1644
rasping1656
scaber1657
asper1681
shaggy1693
gruff1697
grating1766
hackly1794
ruvid1837
scrubby1856
unkind1866
raspy1882
ruckly1923
sandpapery1957
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > rough or harsh
stour1786
raspy1821
rasping1873
grainy1963
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 168 Scraped with rasping Instruments.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 429/1 Raspatorium, Rasping hookes;..Scraping Instruments to shave and scrape filthy and scaly bones. Its called also Xyster.
1735 W. Sewel Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch Rasphuys boef, a Rasping rascal, a Bridewel-rogue.
1793 S. Bentham Brit. Patent 1951 (1854) 32 What I call a rasping punch; this is a strong thick tool..cut its whole length into teeth.
1832 Examiner 19/1 Sycophancy, pliancy,..silkiness on one side, and a rasping roughness on the other.
1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 269 A cold, rasping, savage day; excruciating for sick nerves.
1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 146 He, in his raspingest voice, is giving his [sc. valet] a month's warning.
1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 48 Pa breathes with a quiet, rasping sound.
1993 Times 24 Nov. 18/1 First there is the rasping slew of braking tyres, then the clunk of mutually indenting coachwork.
2. Hunting. Of a fence, etc.: difficult to jump or cross. Cf. rasper n. 2. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [adjective] > of a fence
rasping1825
stiff1852
1825 Sporting Mag. 17 39/1 A man who would rather not meet with the Whissendine Brook, or a rasping ox-fence.
1829 Sporting Mag. 23 372 Many ox-fences and two rasping brooks.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 126 ‘Slow hunting!’ exclaimed Sir Godfrey, taking a rasping rail and ditch.
1896 C. Mordaunt & W. R. Verney Ann. Warwickshire Hunt I. 30 The rasping fences of Warwickshire.
1904 M. Peacock in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 42/2 It was ă raspin' fence, bud hĕ went oher it wi'oot tuchin' on it.
3. Remarkably rapid or fast-moving; (now) esp. (Sport) designating a powerful, fast-moving shot or ball. Cf. raking adj.1
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1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred xi. 92 Away we went..at a rasping pace.
1898 A. Conan Doyle in Windsor Mag. July 126/1 The other four were still going strong, and they did four or five miles down the river flat at a rasping pace.
1925 Times 2 Mar. 6/2 A rasping shot from Partridge rebounded from the goal-post.
1976 Oadby & Wigston Advertiser (Leics.) 26 Nov. 15/5 Lewis was allowed to come through and test the keeper with a rasping drive.
1997 Observer (Nexis) 29 June (Sport section) 8 There was a torrent of rasping drives off front and back foot and dismissive pulls in a defiant exhibition of strokeplay that no one in county cricket could surpass.
2007 Mail on Sunday 11 Mar. 134 He set off on a rasping run which started inside his own 22 and ended inside the Irish half, when he handed over possession to Paterson.
Derivatives
ˈraspingly adv. in a rasping manner.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adverb] > rough or harsh
through the throat1595
barkingly1605
raspingly1870
roupily1887
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adverb] > grating
gratingly1857
raspingly1870
grittily1911
1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 3 Dec. 658/1 ‘Roma’, said Cassaba, raspingly.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 6/2 The wooden rattles with which..the people were raspingly summoned to public worship.
1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money ii. 9 An el train clattered raspingly through the..streets.
1976 Musical Times 117 567/1 The mood of the music may be Romantically lyrical or raspingly parodistic.
2006 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 26 June b3 An opening goal by captain Rafael Marquez,..raspingly taken on the half-volley.
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