rasp

Etymology 1

From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

noun

1. 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.
2. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
   the rasp of her perpetual cough

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
3. To say in a raspy voice.
4. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
   to rasp wood to make it smooth
   to rasp bones to powder
5. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
   Some sounds rasp the ear.
   His insults rasped my temper.

Etymology 2

From raspberry.

noun

1. (obsolete) The raspberry.