Rap

Definition of Rap

Pronunciation: răpt

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

v. i.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

[imp. & p. p. Rapped (răpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]

v. t.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

With one great peal they rap the door.

- Prior.

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

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

v. t.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

[imp. & p. p. Rapped (răpt), usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]

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.

To hasten.

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.

To exchange; to truck.

To engage in a discussion, converse.

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 seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. - Dryden.

All they could rap and rend and pilfer.

- Hudibras.

A judge who rapped out a great oath.

- Addison.

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.

- Swift.

Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.

- Mrs. Alexander.

Not to care a rap
to care nothing.

Not worth a rap
worth nothing.

conversation; also, rapping.

a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

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