Rap

·noun A quick, smart blow; a knock.

II. Rap ·v To Hasten.

III. Rap ·v To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

IV. Rap ·vt To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

V. Rap ·noun A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

VI. Rap ·v To Exchange; to Truck.

VII. Rap ·vi To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to Knock; as, to rap on the door.

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

IX. Rap ·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.

X. Rap ·noun 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.