The Meaning of rap

• (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
• (v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
• (v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
• (v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
• (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
• (v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
• (v.) To hasten.
• (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.
• (v.) To exchange; to truck.
• (n.) 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.

Synonyms

blame , strike , tap , pat , tap , rap music , hip-hop , knock , belt , whack , whang , knap , tap , knock , pink

Homophones

rapp , rappe , wrap

Rhymes

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