Rape

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Rape, n. [F. râpe a grape stalk.].

•  Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.  Ray.  [1913 Webster]
•  The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.  [1913 Webster]
•  A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.  [1913 Webster]

Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

Rape, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See Rap to snatch.].

•  The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.  [1913 Webster]

  "And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain."  [1913 Webster]
•  Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is snatched away.  [1913 Webster]

  "Where now are all my hopes? O, never more
  Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore."  [1913 Webster]
•  Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.  [1913 Webster]
•  An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies.  [PJC]

Rape, v. t. 

•  To commit rape upon; to ravish.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [PJC]

To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

Rape, v. i. 

 To rob; to pillage.  Heywood.  [1913 Webster]

Rape, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.].

 One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.  [1913 Webster]

Rape, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. "ra`pys, "ra`fys, G. rÜbe.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
" 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."  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Rape, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the act of forcing a woman to have sexual intercourse against her will. b forcible sodomy.
2 (often foll. by of) violent assault, forcible interference, violation.
3 poet. carrying off (esp. of a woman) by force.
4 an instance of rape.
--v.tr.
1 commit rape on (a person, usu. a woman).
2 violate, assault, pillage.
3 poet. take by force.

Rape, n. a plant, Brassica napus, grown as food for sheep and for its seed, from which oil is made. Also called COLZA, COLE.

Idiom

rape-cake rape-seed pressed into a flat shape after the extraction of oil and used as manure or cattle food. rape-oil an oil made from rape-seed and used as a lubricant and in foodstuffs.

Rape, n. hist. (in the UK) any of the six ancient divisions of Sussex.

Rape, n.
1 the refuse of grapes after wine-making, used in making vinegar.
2 a vessel used in vinegar-making.

Etymology

F r{acirc}pe, med.L raspa

THESAURUS

Rape

abduction, abuse, assault, assault sexually, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, battering, betray, betrayal, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchery, capture, carry on, compromise, criminal assault, debauch, debauchment, deceive, defile, defilement, deflorate, defloration, deflower, deflowering, deflowerment, depredate, depredation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, devirginate, devirgination, direption, dishonor, disorderliness, entice, foraging, foray, force, forcible seizure, freebooting, go on, hammer, kidnapping, killing, lay waste, laying waste, lead astray, loot, looting, lure, marauding, massacre, maul, mislead, mug, obstreperousness, onslaught, outrage, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, possess sexually, priapism, rage, raid, raiding, ramp, rampage, ransacking, rant, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, rave, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, roar, ruin, sack, sacking, savage, seduce, seducement, seduction, seizure, sexual assault, sexual possession, shame, slaughter, snatching, soil, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, storm, sully, take, take advantage of, taking, tear, tear around, tempt, terrorize, unruliness, vandalize, violate, violation, wreck, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

Rape

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.