Usually means: Coarse file for shaping wood.
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  1. rasp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rasp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rasp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rasp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rasp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rasp, rasp: Wordnik
  7. rasp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rasp: Wiktionary
  9. rasp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rasp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rasp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rasp, rasp: Dictionary.com
  13. rasp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rasp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RASP (disambiguation), RASP, Rasp, The Rasp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rasp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rasp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rasp: Rhymezone
  19. Rasp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rasp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rasp: Free Dictionary
  22. rasp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rasp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. rasp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rasp: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RASP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. rasp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RASP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. rasp: Idioms

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rasp, rasp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rasp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Rasp: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See rasped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a rasp.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
verb:  To say in a raspy voice.
verb:  (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
noun:  (obsolete) The raspberry.

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