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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 door
.

Rap

,
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
.]
[OE.
rapen
; akin to LG. & D.
rapen
to snatch, G.
raffen
, Sw.
rappa
; cf. Dan.
rappe sig
to make haste, and Icel.
hrapa
to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L.
rapere
to seize. Cf.
Rape
robbery,
Rapture
,
Raff
,
Verb.
,
Ramp
,
Verb.
]
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
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.
[L. rapio, rapidus, rapid.]
To strike with a quick sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

RAP

,
Verb.
T.
To strike with a quick blow; to knock.
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.
a quick smart blow; as a rap on the knuckles.

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Verb

ráp

  1. to fit, to assemble, to join together