Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which rasps; a cutting scraper.
- noun In hunting, a difficult fence.
- noun A contrivance for taking fish, consisting of several bare hooks fastened back to back, to be jerked through the water with a line; a pull-devil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who, or thing that
rasps (scrapes )
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Examples
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Rat seizes on it 30 yards out and sends a miserable low rasper toddling well wide.
Arsenal v Shakhtar Donetsk – as it happened Paul Doyle 2010
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After Fletcher's 30-yard rasper was blocked, everyone seemed to stop as if playing statues, as the ball looped goalbound towards Berbatov.
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From the exact same position as Malouda shot moments previously, Franck Ribery stings Perez's palms with a left-footed rasper.
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Arsenal's Manuel Almunia gave his defenders the jitters with a couple of trademark flaps and his poor positioning allowed David Ngog to beat him courtesy of a near post rasper.
Five things we learned from watching football this weekend 2010
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If you take old Josh at all, you take him as you find him; and a devilish rusty, old rasper, of a close – toothed, J.B. file, you do find him.
Dombey and Son 2007
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'She raced at the rasper, I felt my knees grasp her,
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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"Speakin 'about that propeller of yours, Zenas Henry -- it must be no end of a temper-rasper."
Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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"Bit of a rasper, that, b'gad!" bellows the Captain, radiant of face.
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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She raced at the rasper, I felt my knees grasp her,
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Cromwell and his tawnies found it a rasper in my vather's time, and Monmouth is like to do the same. '
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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