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Rape   /reɪp/   Listen
noun
Rape  n.  
1.
Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
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.


Rape  n.  
1.
The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. "And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain."
2.
(Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
3.
That which is snatched away. (Obs.) "Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore."
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.


Rape  n.  One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.


Rape  n.  (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.


verb
Rape  v. t.  
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, n. 5.
To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.


Rape  v. i.  To rob; to pillage. (Obs.)





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... That Jove, usurper of his father's seat, Might presently be banish'd into hell, And aged Saturn in Olympus dwell. They granted what he crav'd; and once again Saturn and Ops began their golden reign: Murder, rape, war, and[24] lust, and treachery, Were with Jove clos'd in Stygian empery. But long this blessed time continu'd not: As soon as he his wished purpose got, 460 He, reckless of his promise, did despise The love of ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe
... Representative Culpepper of Connecticut accomplished the maneuver. Together they smoothly cut the general out of the group comparing the present tax structure to rape, past the group lamenting the heavy penalties in the latest conflict-of-interest law, into a comparatively ...
— Take the Reason Prisoner • John Joseph McGuire
... Latin; and so she was sent away as sorrowful as she had come, for Davidson did not want to raise hopes which there was no chance of being fulfilled; but he knew as a Scotchman that a man who trusts himself to a "strae rape" in the hope of its breaking, may possibly hang himself; and so it happened that the very next day a summons was served upon George Balgarnie, to have it found and declared by the Lords of Session that he had promised to ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various
... show myself to-night, in case, sir, you should have any commission to give me for to-morrow. I thought I might be useful, as it is market-day; and I know most of the coachmen of the farmers who come in with rape-seed and other produce; and I know ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... You are in the hands of a man, that loves you, as never woman was loved before. But I will be with you in a minute," said he. And withdrawing behind the carriage, he beckoned to the person who had conducted the business of the rape. "Why, you incorrigible blockhead," said lord Martin, "you have neglected half your instructions. Why, her hands are at liberty." "I beg your honour's pardon," replied the pimp, "I had indeed forgotten, ...
— Damon and Delia - A Tale • William Godwin


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