Rap
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( v.) To exchange; to truck.
(3): ( v.) 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.
(4): ( v.) To hasten.
(5): ( v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
(6): ( n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
(7): ( v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(8): ( v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
(9): ( v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
(10): ( n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
King James Dictionary [2]
Rap, L. rapio, rapidus, rapid.
To strike with a quick sharp blow to knock as, to rap on the door.
Rap, To strike with a quick blow to knock.
with one great peal they rap the door.
To rap out, to utter with sudden violence as, to rap out an oath. In the popular language of the United States, it is often pronounced rip, to rip out an oath L. crepo.
1. 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 bar begun.
2. To snatch or hurry away.
And rapt with whirling wheels.
Rapt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.
3. To seize by violence. 4. To exchange to truck. Low and not used.
To rap and rend, to seize and tear or strip to fall on and plunder to snatch by violence. They brought off all they could rap and rend. See Rend.
Rap, n. a quick smart blow as a rap on the knuckles.
