Removal of the periople by excessive rasping of the wall is most certainly a predisposing cause.

From Rolla to Lebanon the roads were badmuddy in the valleys of the streams, and on the higher ground frozen into inequalities like a gigantic rasp.

The one was a delicious drawl; the other had been the guttural rasp and click of the kitchen and the bazaar.

And he set down his cup of coffee to go rummaging in a kyack just to make sure that he had the hoof rasp and shoeing hammer safe.

The brakes ground down with a jarring rasp.

Again, nervously, shortly, he repeated the needless rasp, "How may, as you say, not interfere; but it's useless, to take any chances.

The workman, taking a divided coconut in his two hands, holds its interior arch, which contains the oil-bearing nut, with a firm pressure against the revolving rasp, at the same time urging with his breast, which is protected by a padded board, against the projecting end of the rod.

It derives its name from the rough rasps or spines with which the bushes are covered.

I thought of his stern eyes as he looked me over in the late sunlight of the evening before; the sharp rasp in his voice, as he said, "Geer, this is no boy's work," and the quiet, confident reply of my captain, "Galesworth will do it for you, General, if any one can."