Listen for a hoarse rasp. The sound of his hoarse voice hung heavy in the air like a call from across a great chasm. -- Robin Jones Gunn, A Heart Full of Hop (1999) The hoarse bellow or rasp of a unicorn is said to carry a long distance (Paul A. Johnshard, Dragons and Unicorns: A Natural History, 1992). Emanating from deep within the throat, a unicorn's hoarse rasp may sound: like tires crunching over gravel like a handsaw cutting wood like the howling winds of winter like wrinkling foil like a Beat poet like an old elevator coarse husky guttural rough low-pitched