Definition of rape

• n. - Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
• n. - The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
• n. - A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
• n. - The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
• n. - Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
• n. - That which is snatched away.
• n. - Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
• v. t. - To commit rape upon; to ravish.
• v. i. - To rob; to pillage.
• n. - One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
• n. - 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.