RAP

noun a quick, smart blow; a knock.

2. rap ·v to hasten.

3. rap ·v to snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

4. rap ·vt to strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

5. rap ·noun a lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

6. rap ·v to exchange; to truck.

7. rap ·vi to strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

8. rap ·vt to free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

9. rap ·v 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.

10. rap ·noun a popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.