rasp

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To file or scrape with a coarse file having sharp projections.
2. v. To utter in a grating voice.
3. v. To grate on (nerves or feelings).
4. v. To scrape harshly; grate.
5. v. To make a harsh grating sound.
6. n. A coarse file with sharp, raised, pointed projections.
7. n. The act of filing with a rasp.
8. n. A harsh grating sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To abrade by rubbing or grating with a coarsely rough instrument; grate, or grate away, with a rasp or something comparable to it.
2. Figuratively, to affect or perform harshly, as if by the use of a rasp; grate upon; utter with a rough and jarring effect: as, to rasp one's feelings; to rasp out a refusal.
3. To rub against something gratingly; produce a rasping effect: as, the vessel rasped against the quay: literally or figuratively.
4. n. A coarse form of file, having its surface dotted with separate protruding teeth, formed by the indentations of a pointed punch. In cabinet-rasps, wood-rasps, and farriers' rasps the teeth are cut in lines sloping down from the left- to the right-hand side; in rasps for use in making boot- and shoe-lasts the teeth slope in the opposite way; and rasps for makers of gun-stocks and saddletrees are cut with teeth arrayed in circular lines or in crescent form: sometimes used figuratively.
5. n. A machine or large instrument for use in rasping; a rasper.
6. n. The radula or odontophore of a mollusk; the lingual ribbon. See cut under radula.
7. n. A rasping surface. The steel of a tinder-box.
8. n. The rough surface of the tongue of some animals.
9. n. The fruit of the common (European) raspberry. See raspberry.
10. To belch; eject wind from the stomach.

Wiktionary

1. n. A coarse file (tool)
2. n. The sound made by this tool when used
3. v. To use a rasp
4. v. To make a noise similar to the one a rasp in use makes; to utter rasps
5. v. To work something with a rasp

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file
2. v. Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language
3. n. 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.
4. n. The raspberry.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. utter in a grating voice
2. v. scrape with a rasp
3. n. a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
4. n. uttering in an irritated tone