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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\ (r[a^]p), noun [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\, verb (used with an object)
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\, noun A quick, smart blow; a knock.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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. & Low]
5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC]
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}. [PJC]
{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 and pilfer. --Hudibras.
{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rap \Rap\, noun [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.
{Not to care a rap}, to care nothing.
{Not worth a rap}, worth nothing.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
1. conversation; also, rapping. [PJC]
2. (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; {rap music}. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}, {rap}]
2: a gentle blow [syn: {rap}, {strike}, {tap}]
3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {rap}, {tap}]
5: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: {rap}, {rap music}, {hip-hop}]
6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whack}, {whang}]
verb
1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: {rap}, {knap}]
2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}, {pink}]
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