Definitions for the word "rape" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
That which is snatched away.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To commit rape upon; to ravish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To rob; to pillage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 a act of forcing a woman or girl to have sexual intercourse against her will. B forcible sodomy. 2 (often foll. By of) violent assault or plunder, forcible interference. v. (-ping) commit rape on. [latin rapio seize]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. n.
Plant grown as fodder, and for its seed from which oil is extracted. [latin rapum, rapa turnip]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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