the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Rap
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v.) To exchange; to truck.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v.) To hasten.
(5):
(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
(6):
(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
(7):
(v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(8):
(v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
(9):
(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
(10):
(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rap'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rap.html. 1828.
