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Rap \Rap\, n.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
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Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), 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.
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And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
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From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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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.
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I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
--Addison.
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Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
some as a type of music; see {rap music}.
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{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.
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All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
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Rap \Rap\ (r[a^]p), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
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Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt); 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.
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Rap \Rap\, v. t.
1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
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With one great peal they rap the door. --Prior.
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2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on
the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
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Rap \Rap\, n.
1. conversation; also, rapping.
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2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with
accompanying rhythm instruments; {rap music}.
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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.
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Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
--Swift.
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Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a
rap, save with her consent. --Mrs.
Alexander.
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{Not to care a rap}, to care nothing.

{Not worth a rap}, worth nothing.
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