(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on
the door.
(v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
(v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the
pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
(v.) To hasten.
(v.) 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.
(v.) To exchange; to truck.
(n.) 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.
