Word Definition

Rap

  1. To exchange; to truck.
  2. To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
  3. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
  4. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
  5. To hasten.
  6. A quick, smart blow; a knock.
  7. To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  8. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.