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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rap \Rap\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}; 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rap \Rap\, v. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, 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}, v., {Ramp}, v.] 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. & Law] {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr r[=a]n 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 pilfer. --Hudibras. {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rap \Rap\, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rap \Rap\, n. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rap n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}] 2: a gentle blow [syn: {strike}, {tap}] 3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {tap}] 4: (informal) voluble conversation 5: a form of vocal music in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment [syn: {rap music}] 6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {whack}, {whang}] v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: {knap}] 2: make light, repeated taps on a surface [syn: {tap}, {knock}, {pink}] 3: perform rap music 4: talk volubly From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: RAP [internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: RAP Remote Access Point
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