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4 definitions found for Rapped
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.
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.
Rapped Rapped (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.
Rapped Rapped, imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away. |
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