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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [F. r[^a]pe a grape stalk.] 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray. [1913 Webster] 2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. [1913 Webster] 3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. [1913 Webster] {Rape wine}, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rape \Rape\, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rape \Rape\, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.] One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. "ra`pys, "ra`fys, G. r["u]be.] (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster] Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the {Brassica campestris} of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({Brassica oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}. [1913 Webster] {Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary. {Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed. {Rape root}. Same as {Rape}. {Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rape \Rape\, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See {Rap} to snatch.] 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. [1913 Webster] And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. --Sandys. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See {Age of consent}, under {Consent}, n. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is snatched away. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. --Sandys. [1913 Webster] 4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 5. (Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rape \Rape\, v. t. 1. To commit rape upon; to ravish. [1913 Webster] 2. (Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailants, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd {rape}, n. 5. [PJC] {To rape and ren}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cole \Cole\ (k[=o]l), n. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. kaylo`s. Cf. {Cauliflower}, {Kale}.] (Bot.) A plant of the {Brassica} or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of {Brassica oleracea} called {rape} and {coleseed}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: rape n 1: Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop [syn: {rape}, {colza}, {Brassica napus}] 2: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rape}, {rapine}] 3: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: {rape}, {violation}, {assault}, {ravishment}] v 1: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: {rape}, {ravish}, {violate}, {assault}, {dishonor}, {dishonour}, {outrage}] 2: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: {rape}, {spoil}, {despoil}, {violate}, {plunder}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: rape vt. 1. To {screw} someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. ?So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory.? 2. To strip a piece of hardware for parts. 3. [CMU/Pitt] To mass-copy files from an anonymous ftp site. ?Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl directory.?