noun
Either of two European plants (Brassica napus or B. rapa) of the mustard family, cultivated as fodder and for their seeds, which yield a valuable oil. Certain varieties of these plants yield canola oil. Also called colza . Also called oilseed rape .
Origin of rape
Middle English
from Old French
from Latin
rāpa pl. of rāpum turnip noun
The refuse of grapes left after the extraction of the juice in winemaking.
Origin of rape
French
râpe grape stalk, pomace from Old French
raspe from rasper to scrape (in reference to the scraping of grapes off the stalk in making wine) ; see
rasp .
Noun (plural rapes)
- (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England. [from 11th c.]
Origin Probably alternative form of rope (as originally used to mark out boundaries).
Verb (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)
- (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry. [14th-16th c.]
Noun (plural rapes)
- (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course. [14th-17th c.]
Adverb (comparative more rape, superlative most rape)
- (obsolete) Quickly; hastily. [14th-19th c.]
Origin From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten"), from Proto-Germanic *hrapanÄ… (“to fall down"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to move, swing, jump"). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall"), Danish rappe (“to make haste"), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry").
Verb (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)
- (intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.) [from 14th c.]
- To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct. [from 15th c.]
- To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent. [from 16th c.]
- That woman was arrested after she raped him.
- To plunder, to destroy or despoil. [from 17th c.]
- (US slang, chiefly Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce. [from 20th c.]
- My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
Noun (plural rapes)
- (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder. [from 14th c.]
- The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally conceived as a crime committed by a man against a woman, but now often extended (under various legal systems) to include other kinds of forced sexual activity by persons of either sex. [from 15th c.]
- (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes. [from 15th c.]
Origin Probably from Latin rapere (verb), Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (from Latin rapere). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off"), Norwegian rapa (“to rip off"), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize"), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect"); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Compare also rap (“seize, snatch").
Noun (plural rape)
- rapeseed, Brassica napus
Origin From Latin rapa, from rapum (“turnip").
Noun (plural rapes)
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
Origin From Middle English rape, from Old French rape (“grape stalk, rasper"), from raper, rasper (“to rasp, scratch"), from Old Frankish *raspÅn (“to scratch"), related to Old High German raspÅn (“to scrape"), Old English Ä¡ehrespan (“to strip, spoil").
