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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.