Rap"page (-pj; 48), n. (Founding) The enlargement of a mold caused by
rapping the pattern.
Rap`pa*ree" (-p*r"), n. A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th
century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.
[Written also raparee.]
Rapped (rpt), imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.
Rapped, imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rap*pee" (rp*p"), n. [F. râpé, fr. râper to grate, to rasp. See Rasp,
v.] A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of
tobacco leaves.
Rap"pel (rp"pl or rp*pl"), n. [F. Cf. Repeal.] (Mil.) The beat of the
drum to call soldiers to arms.
Rap"per (rp"pr), n. [From Rap.] 1. One who, or that which, raps or
knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. Sterne.