RAPE

Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. Ray.

The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. Sandys.

Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. statutory rape.

That which is snatched away. [Obs.] Where now are all my hopes O, never more. Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. Sandys.

Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.] rape of the land by mining companies.

To commit rape upon; to ravish. raped first by their assailant, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5. To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] Heywood.

One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

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.