Rap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]
1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. To hasten. [Obs.]
3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
To rap and ren, To rap and rend. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. “[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.”
All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
-- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
Rend v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rent p. pr. & vb. n. Rending.]
1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
The dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. --Shak.
2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings xi. 11.
To rap and rend. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.
Syn: -- To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture; crack; split.