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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rape \Rape\, noun [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.
And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. --Sandys.
2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See {Age of consent}, under {Consent}, noun
3. That which is snatched away. [Obs.]
Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. --Sandys.
4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.]
5. (Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rape \Rape\, verb (used with an object)
1. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
2. (Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailants, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd {rape}, noun 5. [PJC]
{To rape and ren}. See under {Rap}, verb (used with an object), to snatch.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rape \Rape\, verb (used without an object) To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rape \Rape\, noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rape \Rape\, noun [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. "ra'pys, "ra'fys, 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 ({Brassica 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 rape seed.
{Rape root}. Same as {Rape}.
{Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cole \Cole\ (k[=o]l), noun [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. kaylo's. Cf. {Cauliflower}, {Kale}.] (Bot.) A plant of the {Brassica} or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of {Brassica oleracea} called {rape} and {coleseed}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rape
noun
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}]
verb
1: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: {ravish}, {violate}, {assault}, {dishonor}, {dishonour}, {outrage}]
2: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: {spoil}, {despoil}, {violate}, {plunder}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "rape": abduction, abuse, assault, assault sexually, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, battering, betray, betrayal, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchery, capture, carry on, compromise, criminal assault, debauch, debauchment, deceive, defile, defilement, deflorate, defloration, deflower, deflowering, deflowerment, depredate, depredation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, devirginate, devirgination, direption, dishonor, disorderliness, entice, foraging, foray, force, forcible seizure, freebooting, go on, hammer, kidnapping, killing, lay waste, laying waste, lead astray, loot, looting, lure, marauding, massacre, maul, mislead, mug, obstreperousness, onslaught, outrage, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, possess sexually, priapism, rage, raid, raiding, ramp, rampage, ransacking, rant, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, rave, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, roar, ruin, sack, sacking, savage, seduce, seducement, seduction, seizure, sexual assault, sexual possession, shame, slaughter, snatching, soil, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, storm, sully, take, take advantage of, taking, tear, tear around, tempt, terrorize, unruliness, vandalize, violate, violation, wreck, wrong
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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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