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Rape   /reɪp/   Listen
noun
Rape  n.  
1.
Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
2.
The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
3.
A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.


Rape  n.  
1.
The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. "And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain."
2.
(Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
3.
That which is snatched away. (Obs.) "Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore."
4.
Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. (Obs.)
5.
(Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies.


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


Rape  n.  (Bot.) 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. Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock (Brassica oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.
Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary.
Rape cake, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed.
Rape root. Same as Rape.
Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.


verb
Rape  v. t.  
1.
To commit rape upon; to ravish.
2.
(Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailants, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5.
To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.


Rape  v. i.  To rob; to pillage. (Obs.)





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"Rape" Quotes from Famous Books



... daye I mote thy worke renew, If to correct and eke to rubbe and scrape, And all is thorow thy neglegence and rape." ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... Criticism" succeeded one of Pope's most brilliant poems, the famous "Rape of the Lock." In its first form it appeared, together with some minor poems and translations, in a volume of "Miscellanies" published by Tonson's rival, Lintot. Its motif was the theft by a certain Lord Petre of one of the tresses ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8 • Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
... said, was all sugar-candy; he had neither the common sense, nor the wit, nor, as she declared, to her ear the melody of Pope. All the poets of the present century, she declared, if put together, could not have written the Rape of the Lock. Pretty as she was, and small, and nice, and lady-like, I think she liked her literature rather strong. It is certain that she had Smollett's novels in a cupboard up-stairs, and it was said that she had been found reading one of ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope
... The Rape of Lucrece.—This poem was published in 1594, with a dedication to the Earl of Southampton. Like so many of the works of Shakespeare, it describes at length the prompting, acting, and results of a treachery inspired ...
— William Shakespeare • John Masefield
... the sail of the Trojan for Latium bound; Her favour that won her Aeneas a bride on Laurentian ground, And anon from the cloister inveigled the Virgin, the Vestal, to Mars; 70 As her wit by the wild Sabine rape recreated her Rome for its wars, With the Ramnes, Quirites, together ancestrally proud as they drew From Romulus down to our Caesar—last, best of that bone, of that thew. Now learn ye to love who loved never—now ye ...
— The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" • Q


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