rasper
AmericanEtymology
Origin of rasper
Example Sentences
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Bristol City almost have another, as Mark Sykes stings the side-netting with a rasper.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2024
Neil Warnock spoke about telling his players to start on the front foot, and Connor Barron certainly received that message by delivering a rasper from 25 yards in the first minute.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2024
Cannon sends a low rasper across Vorm and off the bottom of the left-hand post!
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2018
They fanny around with some not-particularly-crisp passes, but Brunt salvages the situation by unleashing a low rasper goalwards from silly yards.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010
Mind the next quickset hedge—that's a rasper, it's a wide gripe, and the hedge is as thick as a wall—Andy'll stick in it—mind him—well leaped, by the powers!
From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel
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