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raspings

/ ˈrɑːspɪŋz /

plural noun

  1. browned breadcrumbs for coating fish and other foods before frying, baking, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

There were other sounds, too; raspings and shriekings, like sword points dragged over stones.

Sugar of lead he mixed largely in his conserves; pulverized human bones he was very fond of prescribing; and the principal ingredient in his gout-powder was ‘raspings of a human skull unburied.’

This is done by simply rasping down the potatoes over a seirce, and passing a current of water over the raspings.

But great is the exultation of a worthless man when he receives for the chips and raspings of his Bridewell logwood a richer reward than the best and wisest for extensive tracts of well-cleared truths!

A deep red of a crimson character may be made with ½ oz. of raspings of Brazil wood macerated in 3 oz. of alcohol.

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