raspings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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They speak a unique and difficult language, which one anthropologist describes as "an array of weird phonemes�clickings, croakings and raspings."
From Time Magazine Archive
Blind ex-Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma heard loud metallic scrunchings and raspings, suffered painful bruises and cuts when a Washington, D. C. ash truck shattered his automobile, driven by Mrs. Gore.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were other sounds, too; raspings and shriekings, like sword points dragged over stones.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Let it get cold in the liquor in which it boiled, then remove the rind and carefully cover with raspings.
From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience by Harrison, Mary
I obtained sapotin for the first time by heating dry raspings of the almond with 90 per cent. alcohol.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various
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