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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rap, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rapped p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]  To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]
 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
 And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
 The whirring chariot.   --Chapman.
    From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove.   --Sir H. Wotton.
 2. To hasten. [Obs.]
 3. 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.
    I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.   --Addison.
    Rapt into future times, the bard begun.   --Pope.
 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
 To rap and ren, To rap and rend.  To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. “[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.”
    All they could rap and rend and pilfer.   --Hudibras.
 -- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
    A judge who rapped out a great oath.   --Addison.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rapped imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rapped, imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rap
      n 1: a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for
           it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame]
      2: a gentle blow [syn: strike, tap]
      3: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, tap]
      4: voluble conversation
      5: 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 [syn: rap
         music, hip-hop]
      6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
         [syn: knock, belt, whack, whang]
      v 1: strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: knap]
      2: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
         fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, knock, pink]
      3: perform rap music
      4: talk volubly
      [also: rapping, rapped]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rapped
      See rap