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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.
Rip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ripped p. pr. & vb. n. Ripping.]
1. To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. --Granville.
3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. --Clarendon.
For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. --Milton.
4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Ripping chisel Carp., a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. --Knight.
Ripping iron. Shipbuilding Same as Ravehook.
Ripping saw. Carp. See Ripsaw.
To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.