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rapping

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  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.  [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.




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