0 past simple and past participle of rasp
1 to make a rough unpleasant sound, especially while breathing or speaking:
He lowered the wall far too much, then rasped across the sole.
Nutmeg graters are normally metal, cylindrical or half-cylindrical, the surface perforated with small rasped holes.
Large competitors are dislodged by pushing them away with the anterior part of the shell, and if barnacles settle, they are rasped away with the radula.
