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Definition of Raspers
1. rasper [n] - See also: rasper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raspers
Literary usage of Raspers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1809)
"5 shews the end view or section of .one of the cutters or raspers. Fig. 4 represents
the same, viewed by looking down- . wards, and Fig. ..."
2. The Courser's Companion by Thomas Thacker (1834)
"But we'll swish at the raspers again and again. Look yonder he goes, tally-ho,
my good hounds, Old Ringwood and Rally, their speed knows no hounds, ..."
3. Sugar: A Handbook for Planters and Refiners by Charles George Warnford Lock, Benjamin E. R. Newlands, John A. R. Newlands (1888)
"The juice of the second pressing is used instead of water in the raspers, ...
A pump conveys the pulp leaving the raspers, and forces it into the tank at c ..."
4. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"... and with our cloaks round our left arms we made play with our tucks, and
managed to put in one or two of the old Wigan Lane raspers. ..."
5. Journal by Bond & Share Society, New Hampshire Dental Society, American Wine Society, Manning Valley Historical Society (1904)
"On the fifth of November, to commemorate Gunpowder Plot, Mick and his raspers(')
were altogether got, With Generals and Colonels and men great in the City, ..."
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