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noun

Rap n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

Rap n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

Rap n. 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." "Tie it (her money) up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent."

Not to care a rap, to care nothing.

Not worth a rap, worth nothing.

Rap n.

Conversation; also, rapping.

(ca. 1985) A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

verb

Rap v. t.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. "With one great peal they rap the door."

(Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

Rap v. t. (past & past part. rapped, usually written rapt; pres. part. rapping)

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. "And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot." "From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove."

To hasten. (Obs.)

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." "Rapt into future times, the bard begun."

To exchange; to truck. (Obs. & Low)

To engage in a discussion, converse.

(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.

To rap and ren, To rap and rend. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. "(Ye) waste all that ye may rape and renne." "All they could rap and rend and pilfer."

To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. "A judge who rapped out a great oath."

Rap v. i. (past & past part. rapped; pres. part. rapping) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

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Etymology of 'Rap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rap" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the boarding house. On one of these last days, a quarter of an hour after she had retired from the dining room, planning to enjoy a rest on a sea grass sofa covered with some large-figured woolen material, there was a gentle rap ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... great and expanded personage, expanding a little more, as it were. The haughty drooping glance struck crushingly the carpet at the Assistant Commissioner's feet. "They'll have to get a hard rap on the knuckles over this affair. We must be in a position to—What is your general idea, stated shortly? No ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... of scraping and squealing and grunting from the stage announced the orchestral preliminaries. There was a scattering fusillade of applause as the tall conductor appeared. Looking through the trees, Harvey could see him rap his stand and raise both arms. The concert was on. Harvey's glance shifted back to the stairway, and he started. On the bottom step, looking about for a vacant table, was William C. Porter. Behind him, standing, with head thrown back, was Miss Katherine Porter. ...

— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster

... Tilly, got quite reconciled to us next day. She was from Kentucky, had been sold to a saloonkeeper at Black Rock, and rescued. She shuddered whenever she spoke of him. Passed from one friendly hand to another she reached Toronto, and was living quietly there as a servant. One evening there was a rap at the door and she went to answer. On opening it she beheld the fellow who claimed to own her. She screamed. Putting his hand over her mouth he lifted her to a sleigh, which drove off. Two passersby, who saw what happened, ran after the sleigh ...

— The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 • Gordon Sellar

... positions and whiffs of shrapnel kept Turks from their business. There are green patches on the western side of Talat ed Dumm in the early months of the year before the sun has burned up the country. Over these the infantry advanced as laid down in the book. The whirring rap-rap of machine guns at present unlocated did not stop them, and as our machine-gun sections, ever on the alert to keep down rival automatic guns, found out and sprayed the nests, the enemy was seen to be anxious about his line of retreat. One large party, harried by shrapnel and machine-gun ...

— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey

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