rasp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A coarse file with sharp, pointed projections.
• noun The act of filing with a rasp.
• noun A harsh grating sound.
• intransitive verb To file or scrape with a rasp.
• intransitive verb To utter in a grating voice.
• intransitive verb To grate on (nerves or feelings).
• intransitive verb To scrape harshly; grate.
• intransitive verb To make a harsh, grating sound.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The fruit of the common (European) raspberry. See raspberry.
• To abrade by rubbing or grating with a coarsely rough instrument; grate, or grate away, with a rasp or something comparable to it.
• Figuratively, to affect or perform harshly, as if by the use of a rasp; grate upon; utter with a rough and jarring effect: as, to rasp one's feelings; to rasp out a refusal.
• To rub against something gratingly; produce a rasping effect: as, the vessel rasped against the quay: literally or figuratively.
• To belch; eject wind from the stomach.
• noun A coarse form of file, having its surface dotted with separate protruding teeth, formed by the indentations of a pointed punch.
• noun A machine or large instrument for use in rasping; a rasper.
• noun The radula or odontophore of a mollusk; the lingual ribbon. See cut under radula.
• noun A rasping surface.
• noun The rough surface of the tongue of some animals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file
• transitive verb Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language
• 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 obsolete The raspberry.
• noun (Bot.) a Brazilian palm tree (Iriartea exorhiza) which has strong aërial roots like a screw pine. The roots have a hard, rough surface, and are used by the natives for graters and rasps, whence the common name.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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.
• noun obsolete The raspberry.
• verb intransitive To use a rasp
• verb intransitive To make a noise similar to the one a rasp in use makes; to utter rasps
• verb transitive To work something with a rasp

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb utter in a grating voice
• verb scrape with a rasp
• noun a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
• noun uttering in an irritated tone