Rasp vs Rasherry - What's the difference?
rasp | rasherry |
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.
The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
(obsolete) The raspberry.
* Francis Bacon
To use a rasp.
To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
To work something with a rasp.
(figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
rasp
English
(wikipedia rasp)Noun
(en noun)- the rasp of her perpetual cough
- Set sorrel amongst rasps , and the rasps will be smaller.
Hypernyms
*Verb
- to rasp''' wood to make it smooth; to '''rasp bones to powder
- Some sounds rasp the ear.
- His insults rasped my temper.