rasping mill (rasping mil)

A saw-like machine for reducing a substance to shreds or fine particles, as a bark-cutter or a grinding-mill for beet-roots; a rasping-machine; a rasper. raspist, n. Same as rasp2. The rasp is is planted in gardens. Gerard. IMG:content-1657.png:[blocks in formation] 4967 capsules, covered with tubercles and used as graters. rasp-punch (rasp'punch), n. A tool, rather more like a cold-chisel than a punch, used for forming the teeth of rasps by cutting into, and turning upward above the surface, parts of the metal before it has been hardened and tempered. raspy (ras'pi), a. [ Such a raspy, untamed voice as that of his I have hardly Carlyle, Misc., IV. 197. (Davies.) heard. ra el (ras), n. [