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Rap

Rap (rap)
n.(r1913 webster dictionaryp)
Rap
[Etymol. uncertain.]
  1. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
    Knight.

Rap

Rap (rap)
v. i.
Rap
  1. To strike with a quick, sharp blow] to knock; as, to rap on the door.

Rap

Rap (rap)
v. t.
Rap
  1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

    With one great peal they rap the door. Prior.

  2. To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

Rap

Rap (rap)
n.
Rap
  1. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

Rap

Rap (rap)
v. t.
Rap
usually written Rapt; p. pr. *** vb. n. Rapping.] [OE. rapen] akin to LG. *** D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa] cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa
  1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

    And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
    The whirring chariot.     Chapman.

    From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

  2. To hasten.
    [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
  3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

    I 'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. Addison.

    Rapt into future times, the bard begun. Pope.

  4. To exchange; to truck.
    [Obs. *** Low]

    To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and ræ]na plunder, fr. r1913 webster dictionaryn plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." Chaucer.

    All they could rap and rend and pilfer. Hudibras.

    -- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.

    A judge who rapped out a great oath. Addison.

Rap

Rap (rap)
n.
Rap
  1. A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

    Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. Swift.

    Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. Mrs. Alexander.

    Not to care a rap, to care nothing. -- Not worth a rap, worth nothing.













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