I. ˈrāp noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English rāp, literally, rope; probably from such districts being marked out by stakes and ropes — more at rope
: one of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between and hundred and a shire
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin rapa, rapum turnip, rape; akin to Middle Dutch roeve turnip, rape, Middle Low German röve, Old High German rāba & ruoba, ruoppa turnip, rape, Old Norse rōfa hard part of a tail, Greek rhapys, rhaphys turnip, Lithuanian ropė
1. obsolete : turnip
2. : an annual herb ( Brassica napus ) of European origin but known only as a cultigen that differs from the cabbage in its deeply lobed leaves which are not hairy like those of the turnip and is widely grown in the Old World as a forage crop for sheep and in the United States chiefly as a forage crop for hogs and sheep, as a cover crop in orchards, or for its seeds which yield rape oil and are a food for birds
III. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English rapen, from Latin rapere — more at rapid
1. archaic : to seize and take away by force : plunder , despoil
2. : to commit rape upon
3. archaic : to make rapt (as with delight) : transport
IV. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from rapen
1. : the act or an instance of robbing or despoiling : violent seizure
the rape of the city by the invading soldiers
the rape of the region's forests
2. : the act of carrying away a person by force
the rape of the Sabine women
3.
a. : illicit sexual intercourse without the consent of the woman and effected by force, duress, intimidation, or deception as to the nature of the act — see statutory rape
b. : sexual aggression other than by a man toward a woman
4. : an outrageous violation (as of a fundamental principle or institution)
trials that have been criticized as a rape of justice — Hal Foust
a judicial rape of the Constitution — H.E.Talmadge
V. noun
( -s )
Etymology: French râpe grape stalk, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German raspōn to scrape together, collect — more at rasp
1. : the pomace of grapes left after expression of the juice or must and used for filtering (as in vinegar making) — often used in plural
2. : a filter consisting of a large cask with a false bottom and containing rape or some other filtering material
VI.
dialect
variant of rope