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- noun Plural form of
rasper .
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Examples
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Chris Salmon Maïa Vidal The Waltz of the Tick-Tock of Time This French-American songwriter below produces music so steeped in whimsy – on this song, her delicate voice is backed by toy instruments – that it's hard to credit her with having originally been influenced by American punk raspers Rancid.
F&M Playlist 2011
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"Well," growled Joe, "of all the perverse old raspers that ever I did see --"
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Do not stop to think; take the raspers without looking at them, and you will find that you get over the ground wonderfully: --
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 Various 1841
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Lord Scamperdale rode along, laughing in his sleeve at the idea of the pleasant evening Jack and Jawleyford would have together, occasionally complimenting Jawleyford on the cut and condition of his horse, and advising him to be careful of the switching raspers with which the country abounded, and which might be fatal to his nice nutmeg -- coloured trousers.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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She was pitted wid the small-pox to that degree that you might hide half a peck of marrowfat paise (peas) in her face widout their being noticed; then the sanies (seams) that ran across it were five-foot raspers, every one of them.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Sure, there were times when Mart, his brother Philip, his sister Sally, my brother Dan and I were a gang, taking illicit substances, drinking, smoking the throat-raspers that Kingsley smoked, playing all-night sessions of Monopoly with Jane's brother Monkey and eating obscenely overpacked cornets from the tubs of Marine Ices that Jane kept in the freezer.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Sure, there were times when Mart, his brother Philip, his sister Sally, my brother Dan and I were a gang, taking illicit substances, drinking, smoking the throat-raspers that Kingsley smoked, playing all-night sessions of Monopoly with Jane's brother Monkey and eating obscenely overpacked cornets from the tubs of Marine Ices that Jane kept in the freezer.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Sure, there were times when Mart, his brother Philip, his sister Sally, my brother Dan and I were a gang, taking illicit substances, drinking, smoking the throat-raspers that Kingsley smoked, playing all-night sessions of Monopoly with Jane's brother Monkey and eating obscenely overpacked cornets from the tubs of Marine Ices that Jane kept in the freezer.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Sure, there were times when Mart, his brother Philip, his sister Sally, my brother Dan and I were a gang, taking illicit substances, drinking, smoking the throat-raspers that Kingsley smoked, playing all-night sessions of Monopoly with Jane's brother Monkey and eating obscenely overpacked cornets from the tubs of Marine Ices that Jane kept in the freezer.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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66308, 66309, Pair of arrow-shaft raspers or grinders of sandstone.
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