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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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