Rape

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which is snatched away.

II. Rape ·noun Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

III. Rape ·noun Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

IV. Rape ·vt To commit rape upon; to Ravish.

V. Rape ·vi To Rob; to Pillage.

VI. Rape ·noun The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.

VII. Rape ·noun Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. ·see Age of consent, under Consent, ·noun.

VIII. Rape ·noun A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, ·etc.

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

X. Rape ·noun The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

XI. Rape ·noun 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.

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