Definition 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.