With one great peal they rap the door. Prior.

And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot. Chapman.

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

I 'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. Addison.

Rapt into future times, the bard begun. Pope.

To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and ræ]na plunder, fr. rn plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." Chaucer.

All they could rap and rend and pilfer. Hudibras.

-- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.

A judge who rapped out a great oath. Addison.

Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. Swift.

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

Not to care a rap, to care nothing. -- Not worth a rap, worth nothing.