9 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [F. r[^a]pe a grape stalk.]
1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray.
2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which
the must has been expressed in wine making.
3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying
and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc
{Rape wine}, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of
pressed grapes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L.
rapere. See {Rap} to snatch.]
1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent
seizure; robbery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, v. t.
To commit rape upon to ravish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, v. i.
To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf Icel.
hreppa to catch, obtain, AS hrepian hreppan to touch.]
One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England,
intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum akin to Gr ?, ?, G. r["u]be.]
(Bot.)
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the
turnip kind grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used
for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for
the food of cage birds.
Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been
variously named but are all now believed to be derived
from the {Brassica campestris} of Europe, which by some
is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({B.
oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}.
{Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary.
{Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been
expressed from the seed.
{Rape root}. Same as {Rape}.
{Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cole \Cole\, n. [OE. col, caul, AS cawl, cawel, fr L. caulis,
the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage,
akin to Gr ?. Cf {Cauliflower}, {Kale}.] (Bot.)
A plant of the {Brassica} or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of
{B. oleracea} called {rape} and {coleseed}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rape
n 1: Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
[syn: {colza}, {Brassica napus}]
2: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rapine}]
3: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse
against her will [syn: {violation}, {assault}, {ravishment},
{sexual assault}]
v 1: assault sexually; force to have sex [syn: {ravish}, {violate},
{dishonor}, {dishonour}, {outrage}]
2: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the
beautiful country" [syn: {despoil}, {violate}, {plunder}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
rape vt 1. To {screw} someone or something violently; in
particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used
in describing file-system damage. "So-and-so was running a program
that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory."
2. To strip a piece of hardware for parts 3. [CMU/Pitt] To mass-copy
files from an anonymous ftp site. "Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl
directory."
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