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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rape \Rape\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rape \Rape\, v. t.
To commit rape upon; to ravish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rape \Rape\, v. i.
To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rape \Rape\, n. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. ?, ?, 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 ({B.
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 seed.
{Rape root}. Same as {Rape}.
{Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cole \Cole\, n. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis,
the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage,
akin to Gr. ?. Cf. {Cauliflower}, {Kale}.] (Bot.)
A plant of the {Brassica} or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of
{B. oleracea} called {rape} and {coleseed}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rape
n 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},
{sexual assault}]
v 1: assault sexually; force to have sex [syn: {ravish}, {violate},
{dishonor}, {dishonour}, {outrage}]
2: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the
beautiful country" [syn: {despoil}, {violate}, {plunder}]
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