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rasp a coarse file with rows of raised teeth rasp [rasp] (design engineering) A metallic tool with a rough surface of small points used for shaping and finishing metal, plaster, stone, and wood; designed in a number of useful curved shapes.
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| The quick-silvery glaze on the rivers and pools vanished; from broad mirrors of light they changed to lustreless sheets of lead, with a surface like a rasp. "Ten fella three times, Billy," Sheldon said encouragingly, though there was a certain metallic rasp in his voice. Waking or sleeping it was always with me, whirring and jarring across my heart-strings like an enormous rasp. |
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