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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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"Rap" Quotes from Famous Books

... from her father and his apprentices. She lost money and found it in Victor's pocket, which gave her an opportunity to appeal to his conscience. She could read fortunes in the cards and make spirits rap at her table. She promised Victor a good wife, and added cheerily: "One like me." She also promised him four healthy and handsome children, and at the prophesy lapsed at ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... plate so as to let the end of the block come upon the sand cushion. Don't twist and turn the block, and to remove the working plate pass a stick through the core holes in both block and plate so that the plate will not fall when loosened. A slight rap on the center of the plate will loosen it. As soon as the blocks are up-ended commence the spraying and soak the sand underneath the block. It may seem unnecessary to dwell on these points so long, but barrels of cement and barrels ...

— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

... "squared up" and all mental pictures completed. The story is told that a gentleman took a room in the hotel next another who was notoriously fussy. He remembered this fact after dropping one boot carelessly to the floor, and laid the other gently down. After a pause he heard a rap on the door and a querulous, "For heaven's sake, drop the other boot, or I can't ...

— Why Worry? • George Lincoln Walton, M.D.

... Carroll's lap, with a look of relief that repaid him fourfold for the trials he was about to undergo. They went merrily away together, leaving Aunt Pen to wish that it was according to the laws of etiquette to rap officious gentlemen over the knuckles, when they introduce their fingers into private pies without permission from the chief cook. How the dance went Debby hardly knew, for the conversation fell upon books, and in the interest of her favorite theme she found even the "grand square" an impertinent ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various

... again, into the Chapel of the Holy Office. She stops at a certain part of the flooring. Her great effect is at hand. She waits for the rest. She darts at the brave courier, who is explaining something; hits him a sounding rap on the hat with the largest key; and bids him be silent. She assembles us all, round a little trap-door in the floor, as round ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

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