noun that which is snatched away.
2. rape ·noun movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
3. rape ·noun fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
4. rape ·vt to commit rape upon; to ravish.
5. rape ·vi to rob; to pillage.
6. rape ·noun the act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
7. rape ·noun sexual connection with a woman without her consent. ·see age of consent, under consent, ·noun.
8. rape ·noun a filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, ·etc.
9. rape ·noun one of six divisions of the county of sussex, england, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
10. rape ·noun the refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
11. 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.