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  9  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rape  \Rape\  (r[=a]p),  n.  [F.  r[^a]pe  a  grape  stalk.] 
  1.  Fruit,  as  grapes,  plucked  from  the  cluster.  --Ray. 
 
  2.  The  refuse  stems  and  skins  of  grapes  or  raisins  from  which 
  the  must  has  been  expressed  in  wine  making. 
 
  3.  A  filter  containing  the  above  refuse,  used  in  clarifying 
  and  perfecting  malt,  vinegar,  etc 
 
  {Rape  wine},  a  poor,  thin  wine  made  from  the  last  dregs  of 
  pressed  grapes. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rape  \Rape\,  n.  [Akin  to  rap  to  snatch,  but  confused  with  L. 
  rapere.  See  {Rap}  to  snatch.] 
  1.  The  act  of  seizing  and  carrying  away  by  force;  violent 
  seizure;  robbery. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rape  \Rape\,  v.  t. 
  To  commit  rape  upon  to  ravish. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rape  \Rape\,  v.  i. 
  To  rob;  to  pillage.  [Obs.]  --Heywood. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rape  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rape  \Rape\,  n.  [L.  rapa,  rapum  akin  to  Gr  ?,  ?,  G.  r["u]be.] 
  (Bot.) 
  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. 
 
  Note:  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  ({B. 
  oleracea})  of  the  cabbage.  See  {Cole}. 
 
  {Broom  rape}.  (Bot.)  See  {Broom  rape},  in  the  Vocabulary. 
 
  {Rape  cake},  the  refuse  remaining  after  the  oil  has  been 
  expressed  from  the  seed. 
 
  {Rape  root}.  Same  as  {Rape}. 
 
  {Summer  rape}.  (Bot.)  See  {Colza}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Cole  \Cole\,  n.  [OE.  col,  caul,  AS  cawl,  cawel,  fr  L.  caulis, 
  the  stalk  or  stem  of  a  plant,  esp.  a  cabbage  stalk,  cabbage, 
  akin  to  Gr  ?.  Cf  {Cauliflower},  {Kale}.]  (Bot.) 
  A  plant  of  the  {Brassica}  or  Cabbage  genus;  esp.  that  form  of 
  {B.  oleracea}  called  {rape}  and  {coleseed}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rape 
  n  1:  Eurasian  plant  cultivated  for  its  seed  and  as  a  forage  crop 
  [syn:  {colza},  {Brassica  napus}] 
  2:  the  act  of  despoiling  a  country  in  warfare  [syn:  {rapine}] 
  3:  the  crime  of  forcing  a  woman  to  submit  to  sexual  intercourse 
  against  her  will  [syn:  {violation},  {assault},  {ravishment}, 
  {sexual  assault}] 
  v  1:  assault  sexually;  force  to  have  sex  [syn:  {ravish},  {violate}, 
  {dishonor},  {dishonour},  {outrage}] 
  2:  destroy  and  strip  of  its  possession;  "The  soldiers  raped  the 
  beautiful  country"  [syn:  {despoil},  {violate},  {plunder}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  rape  vt  1.  To  {screw}  someone  or  something  violently;  in 
  particular,  to  destroy  a  program  or  information  irrecoverably.  Often  used 
  in  describing  file-system  damage.  "So-and-so  was  running  a  program 
  that  did  absolute  disk  I/O  and  ended  up  raping  the  master  directory." 
  2.  To  strip  a  piece  of  hardware  for  parts  3.  [CMU/Pitt]  To  mass-copy 
  files  from  an  anonymous  ftp  site.  "Last  night  I  raped  Simtel's  dskutl 
  directory." 
 
 




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