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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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... stealing; all capitally convicted, but their sentences commuted into transportation for life. 7thly, Two for horse stealing; one of whom was capitally convicted but not executed, the other sentenced to solitary confinement. 8thly, One for rape, but acquitted. 9thly, Twenty-seven for privately stealing in dwelling and out-houses; two of whom were transported for fourteen years, nine for seven years, one for four years, four for three years, two for two ...
— Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land • William Charles Wentworth

... after him, mould him in his years of tenderness as they please. If they happen to leave him a walking invalid, you take him into the poorhouse; if they bring him up a thief, you whip him and keep him at high cost at Millbank or Dartmoor; if his passions, never controlled, break out into murder and rape, you may hang him, unless his crime has been so atrocious as to attract the benevolent interest of the Home Secretary; if he commit suicide, you hold a coroner's inquest, which also costs money; and however he dies you give him a deal coffin and bury him. Yet I may prove ...
— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins

... carding; the wool was first greased with rape oil or "melted swine's grease," which had to be thoroughly worked in; about three pounds of grease were put into ten pounds of wool. Wool-cards were rectangular pieces of thin board, with a simple handle on the back or at the side; to this ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

... most important of the non-leguminous crops are rye, buckwheat, turnips or rape, barley, oats, and millet. The first mentioned are the most commonly used. Also in order of importance the following are the usual leguminous cover and green manure crops to be used: clovers, winter vetch, soy beans, alfalfa, cow peas (first in the South). In ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt

... vows that the Harlowes shall feel the former, although for it he become an exile from his country forever. He will throw himself into Clarissa's presence in the woodhouse. If he thought he had no prospect of her favour, he would attempt to carry her off: that, he says, would be a rape worthy of a Jupiter. The arts he is resolved to practise when he sees her, in order to engage her ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson


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