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risp
risp
English
Alternative forms
- resp (Scotland)
Verb
risp (third-person singular simple present risps, present participle risping, simple past and past participle risped)
- To rub together, to rasp or grate.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, ISBN 978-0-684-13783-4:
- [T]hat Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.
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