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Definition of Rasper
1. n. One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.
Definition of Rasper
1. Noun. A person who, or thing that rasps (scrapes) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rasper
1. one that rasps [n -S] - See also: rasps
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rasper
Literary usage of Rasper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Sports of Great Britain: Fifty Engravings with Descriptionsby Henry Thomas Alken by Henry Thomas Alken (1903)
"... AT A rasper WE apprehend this phrase—Swishing at a rasper—to be provincial,
and peculiar to a few counties, as in some, we have found it unknown in the ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1831)
"... eager to shine in the lead, Forward !'• now catch them who can in their flight.
With t In- nerve of an artist a rasper ..."
3. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1874)
"THE rasper." ON first going into my district, a friend who was kindly doing what
he could to " put me into the ways " of the neighbourhood, ..."