Rasper
/ˈrɑːs.pər/noun
A person or tool that rasps, scrapes, or abrades a surface.
Did you know?The word comes from the same Germanic scraping vocabulary behind the medieval rasp, a coarse tool used to remove material by abrasion rather than cutting.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic period
Germanic
*raspōną
“To scrape or rasp; reconstructed Germanic source”
Old High German
Old High German
raspōn
“To scrape or rub roughly”
12th–13th Century
Old French
rasper
“To scrape, grate, or abrade; borrowed from a Germanic source”
14th Century
Middle English
raspen
“To scrape harshly or abrade”
15th Century
English
rasper
“An agent or instrument that rasps”
Modern English
English
rasper
“A person or implement that rasps or scrapes”