Rap

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

To hasten.

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.

To exchange; to truck.

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.

genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged