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Rap   /ræp/   Listen
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.  
1.
Conversation; also, rapping.
2.
(ca. 1985) A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.


verb
Rap  v. t.  
1.
To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. "With one great peal they rap the door."
2.
(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)  
1.
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."
2.
To hasten. (Obs.)
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." "Rapt into future times, the bard begun."
4.
To exchange; to truck. (Obs. & Low)
5.
To engage in a discussion, converse.
6.
(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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"Rap" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ulstervelt; and yet, on the other hand, was he any better off for this cheerful argument? There was nothing to prove that she cared for him, notwithstanding this agreeable conclusion by contrast. As a matter of fact, he came earthward with a rush, weighted down by the conviction that she did not care a rap for him except as a conveniently moral brother-in-law. He was further distressed by Edith's comfortless, though perhaps well-qualified, announcement that she believed her sister to be in love; she could not imagine with whom; she ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... chair, and showing it, "that's worse." By which you may learn the fact—that every man puts his best leg foremost. But we must not quit our friend Gerard yet. I like his grave conceit. I rejoice to find him giving the painters a rap over their knuckles. He says, Eusebius, that they are fond of having "smutty pictures" in their rooms; and roundly tells them, that though fine pictures are necessary, there is no need of their having such subjects as "Mars and Venus, and Joseph and Potiphar's ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various
... and I shall append no credit to the tale until I do know. He is headstrong, but he answers to a rap." ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... at Queenstown is one of the experiences. May I send the steward to rap at your door when the ...
— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr
... brought along in case there should be a parcel to carry. Mr. Scraper had brought, too, his supple bamboo cane, in case of need; it was a cane of singular parts, and had a way that was all its own of curling about the legs and coming up "rap" against the tender part of the calf. The boy John was intimately acquainted with the cane; therefore, when his legs refused to go steadily, but danced in spite of him, he had dropped behind Mr. Endymion, and kept well out of reach of the searching ...
— Nautilus • Laura E. Richards


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