Definition of rasp

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Rasp (v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder..

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Grip :: Grip (v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
Riflebird :: Riflebird (n.) Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds..
Stichomancy :: Stichidium (n.) A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.
Supraspinal :: Suprasphenoidal (a.) Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body..
Clinch :: Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Prehensile :: Prehensile (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey..
Cane :: Cane (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry..
Prehension :: Prehension (n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member..
Tetraspermous :: Tetraspermous (a.) Having four seeds.
Raspatory :: Raspatory (v.) A surgeon's rasp.
Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes..
File :: File (n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively..
Parasphenoid :: Parasphenoid (n.) The parasphenoid bone.
Parasphenoid :: Parasphenoid (a.) Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.
Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Forcible possession; hold.
Curmudgeon :: Curmudgeon (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl..
Outsider :: Outsider (n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside..
Rasper :: Rasper (n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper..
Phanerocarpae :: Phanerocarpae (n. pl.) Same as Acraspeda.
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