Rap /(răp)/

1. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

imp. & p. p. Rapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping

1. To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

   With one great peal they rap the door.

2. To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. (Founding)

1. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

imp. & p. p. Rapped; 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.

   From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.

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.

   Rapt into future times, the bard begun.

4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
6. to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

   All they could rap and rend and pilfer.

   A judge who rapped out a great oath.

1. 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.

   Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.

   Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.

1. conversation; also, rapping.
2. a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.