rasping

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  1. A particle rasped off from a body or mass of matter. Compare filing, 2. The wood itself, either reduced to shavings, raspings, or powder. W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 337.
  2. Characterized by grating or scraping: as, a rasping sound; hence, irritating; exasperating.
  3. In hunting, said of a fence difficult to take. You cannot … make him keep his seat over a rasping fence. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 60.

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  • It was low, rasping, and guttural, churning up from somewhere deep, deep in his throat, but with a weird sort of chilly nasal whistle running under and through it. —  ElleryQueen'sMysteryMagazine,February2003
  • The rasping--slightly metallic, it seemed, was more like an insect noise than anything else the homely chemist could imagine It dawned on Monk that the sound was coming toward him, coming fast Darkness where the homely chemist stood was intense enough to seem nearly solid. —  039 - The Seven Agate Devils
  • Once there was a heavy rasping, as if a huge hawser were being hauled over the wooden side of a boat. —  092 - Devils of the Deep
  • He coughed, rasping, and the knobs on his eyelids fluttered as he blinked rapidly. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#1
  • Like most other gastropods, snails feed by using a specialized rasping organ called a radula.
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rasping:   rasp ·  rasps ·  rasped
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  1. Verbal noun of rasp, v.
  2. Ppr. of rasp, v.
 

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