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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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