Rape, v. t. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.
Rape, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] Heywood.
Rape, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch,
obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.] One of six divisions of the
county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Rape, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. "ra`pys, "ra`fys, G. rübe.]
(Bot.) 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.
These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but
are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of
Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock
(B. oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.
Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary. -- Rape cake, the
refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed.
-- Rape root. Same as Rape. -- Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.