rasp¹ /räsp/

1. A coarse file
2. Anything with a similar surface
3. A mollusc's tongue
4. An insect's stridulating apparatus
5. A risp at a door
6. A grating sound or feeling

1. To grate as if with a rasp
2. To grate upon
3. To risp
4. To utter gratingly

1. To have a grating effect
2. To scrape, as on a fiddle

raspˈatory noun

A surgeon's rasp

raspˈer noun

1. Someone or something that rasps
2. In hunting, a difficult fence (informal)

raspˈing noun

1. A filing
2. (in pl) fine breadcrumbs used as a coating for food before frying, etc

Grating, harsh

raspˈingly adverb

raspˈy adjective

Rough

raspˈ-house noun

(Du rasphuis) a former type of prison in Germany and Holland, where dyewood was rasped

rasp² /räsp/ (now informal and Scot)

A raspberry

raspberry /räzˈbər-i/ noun

1. The fruit of Rubus idaeus
2. The plant producing it
3. Extended to some similar species
4. A sign of disapproval, esp a noise produced by blowing hard with the tongue between the lips (slang)
5. A refusal or rebuke (slang)

1. Of, made with, or like raspberry
2. Of the red colour of a raspberry

raspberry bush noun

raspberry jam tree noun

An Australian acacia (from the smell of its wood)

• untunefulness
• untunefulnesses
• untunes
• untuning
• unturbid
• unturf
• unturfed
• unturfing
• unturfs
• unturn
• unturnable
• unturned
• unturning
• unturns
• untutored
• untwine
• untwined
• untwines
• untwining
• untwist
• untwisted
• untwisting
• untwistings
• untwists
• untying