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rape I. \ˈrāp\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English rāp, literally, rope; probably from such districts being marked out by stakes and ropes — more at rope : one of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between and hundred and a shire II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin rapa, rapum turnip, rape; akin to Middle Dutch roeve turnip, rape, Middle Low German röve, Old High German rāba & ruoba, ruoppa turnip, rape, Old Norse rōfa hard part of a tail, Greek rhapys, rhaphys turnip, Lithuanian ropė 1. obsolete : turnip 2. : an annual herb (Brassica napus) of European origin but known only as a cultigen that differs from the cabbage in its deeply lobed leaves which are not hairy like those of the turnip and is widely grown in the Old World as a forage crop for sheep and in the United States chiefly as a forage crop for hogs and sheep, as a cover crop in orchards, or for its seeds which yield rape oil and are a food for birds III. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English rapen, from Latin rapere — more at rapid 1. archaic : to seize and take away by force : plunder, despoil 2. : to commit rape upon 3. archaic : to make rapt (as with delight) : transport IV. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from rapen 1. : the act or an instance of robbing or despoiling : violent seizure < the rape of the city by the invading soldiers > < the rape of the region's forests > 2. : the act of carrying away a person by force < the rape of the Sabine women > 3. a. : illicit sexual intercourse without the consent of the woman and effected by force, duress, intimidation, or deception as to the nature of the act — see statutory rape b. : sexual aggression other than by a man toward a woman 4. : an outrageous violation (as of a fundamental principle or institution) < trials that have been criticized as a rape of justice — Hal Foust > < a judicial rape of the Constitution — H.E.Talmadge > V. noun (-s) Etymology: French râpe grape stalk, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German raspōn to scrape together, collect — more at rasp 1. : the pomace of grapes left after expression of the juice or must and used for filtering (as in vinegar making) — often used in plural 2. : a filter consisting of a large cask with a false bottom and containing rape or some other filtering material VI. dialect variant of rope |