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What is the noun for rasp?

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rasp
  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.
  3. (obsolete) The raspberry.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Pull the end of the board outward, then file it with a rasp.”
      “She almost panicked when she heard the rasp of steel being drawn.”
      “The rasp of the crow on the church tower stirs smaller birds to song.”
rasper
  1. A person who, or thing that rasps (scrapes)
  2. Examples:
    1. “Always more of a whisperer or a ranter or a rasper, master of not one voice but many.”
      “Curran was forced to tip away Keith Carty's angled lob after 30 seconds and later watched as Sean Dorrian's 15th minute rasper fizzed over his crossbar.”
      “Just as the pikes attack is at its height, the rasper suddenly raises his twelve-spined dorsal fin.”
raspatory
  1. A surgeon's rasp.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is not difficult of execution, and can be carried out with a scalpel and a raspatory.”
      “Great care must be taken not to pass the raspatory between the mucous membrane and the closely adhering perichondrium.”
      “A raspatory which works laterally is next passed from one side of the naso-pharynx to the other above the growth.”
rasping
raspatories
  1. plural of raspatory
raspings
  1. plural of rasping
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Beat up the second egg, turn the cakes into the beaten egg and raspings, and fry them in oil or butter until brown.”
      “This is employed under the form of shavings, raspings, and sawdust, in decoctions only.”
      “This is done by simply rasping down the potatoes over a seirce, and passing a current of water over the raspings.”
raspers
  1. plural of rasper
  2. Examples:
    1. “Theo Zagorakis went close with a couple of raspers before Raul missed an absolute sitter.”
      “Twice Kelly sent raspers towards Cummins' net, twice the cat-like Cummins swatted them away.”
      “Committee chairman David Hinchliffe, a rugby league man who has heard a few raspers in his time, was shocked.”
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