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Webster 1913 Edition
Rap
Rap
(răp)
, Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Knight.
Rap
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rapped
(răpt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rapping
.] [Akin to Sw.
rappa
to strike, rapp
stroke, Dan. rap
, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock;
as, to
. rap
on the doorRap
,Verb.
T.
1.
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
With one great peal they
rap
the door. Prior.
2.
(Founding)
To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap
,Noun.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rap
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rapped
(răpt)
, usually written Rapt
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rapping
.] 1.
To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they
The whirring chariot.
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 admirationI'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 ræna
plunder, fr. rān
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
,Noun.
[Perhaps contr. fr.
raparee
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rap
RAP
,Verb.
I.
To strike with a quick sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
RAP
,Verb.
T.
with one great peal they rap the door.
To rap out, to utter with sudden violence; as, to rap out an oath. [In the popular language of the United States, it is often pronounced rip, to rip out an oath; L. crepo.]
RAP
, v.t.1.
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.
Rapt into future times the bar begun.
2.
To snatch or hurry away.And rapt with whirling wheels.
Rapt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.
3.
To seize by violence.4.
To exchange; to truck. [Low and not used.]To rap and rend, to seize and tear or strip; to fall on and plunder; to snatch by violence. They brought off all they could rap and rend. [See Rend.]
RAP
,Noun.