Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [F. r[^a]pe a grape stalk.]

1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray.

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.

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Rape \Rape\, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See Rap to snatch.]

1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.

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Rape \Rape\, v. t. To commit rape upon; to ravish.

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Rape \Rape\, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.]

--Heywood.

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Rape \Rape\, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.]

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

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Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. ?, ?, G. r["u]be.]

(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 (B. 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 seed.

Rape root. Same as Rape.

Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.

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Cole \Cole\, n. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. ?. Cf. Cauliflower, Kale.]

(Bot.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)