Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rap"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rap \Rap\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. --Knight.
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.
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 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rap \Rap\, n.
A quick, smart blow; a knock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rap
n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for
it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}]
2: a gentle blow [syn: {strike}, {tap}]
3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {tap}]
4: (informal) voluble conversation
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
music}]
6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
[syn: {knock}, {belt}, {whack}, {whang}]
v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: {knap}]
2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {knock}, {pink}]
3: perform rap music
4: talk volubly
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