| 单词 | to rap and rear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rap and rear transitive and intransitive. In alliterative phrases, esp. to rap and rend (also to rap and rear, to rap and run, to rap and wring, etc.): to get by any means. Common in the 16th–17th centuries; now archaic or regional. Cf. rape v.2 1a, 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] gripea900 afangOE to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE repeOE atfonga1000 keepc1000 fang1016 kip1297 seize1338 to seize on or upon1399 to grip toc1400 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 comprise1423 forsetc1430 grip1488 to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495 compass1509 to catch hold1520 hap1528 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 seisin?c1550 cly1567 scratch1582 attach1590 asseizea1593 grasp1642 to grasp at1677 collar1728 smuss1736 get1763 pin1768 grabble1796 bag1818 puckerow1843 nobble1877 jump1882 snaffle1902 snag1962 pull1967 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] pick?c1300 takec1300 fetch1377 bribec1405 usurpc1412 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 embezzle1495 lifta1529 pilfer1532 suffurate1542 convey?1545 mill1567 prig1567 strike1567 lag1573 shave1585 knave1601 twitch1607 cly1610 asport1621 pinch1632 snapa1639 nap1665 panyar1681 to carry off1684 to pick up1687 thievea1695 to gipsy away1696 bone1699 make1699 win1699 magg1762 snatch1766 to make off with1768 snavel1795 feck1809 shake1811 nail1819 geach1821 pull1821 to run off1821 smug1825 nick1826 abduct1831 swag1846 nobble1855 reef1859 snig1862 find1865 to pull off1865 cop1879 jump1879 slock1888 swipe1889 snag1895 rip1904 snitch1904 pole1906 glom1907 boost1912 hot-stuff1914 score1914 clifty1918 to knock off1919 snoop1924 heist1930 hoist1931 rabbit1943 to rip off1967 to have off1974 c1415 [see sense 1]. c1487 [see sense 1]. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. e vi Acustumed to rappe and rende All that commeth in their fingrynge. 1570 J. Foxe tr. Pope Adrian VI Epist. in Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 983/2 Thinke you..they will not plucke from you what soeuer They can rappe or reue? 1615 J. Day Festivals 295 Al they can wrap and rend is little enough for Wife and Children. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xvi. 206 Whatsoeuer he could wrap or wring. 1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (new ed.) 23 Contributing all that we could rap and rend of Men, or Amunition. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. ii. 11 An Eating-house, where the whole Tribe of them spend all they can rap or run. 1741 S. Cobb in G. Ogle Canterbury Tales I. 202 All Dainties he could rap and rend, he got, And sent her Tarts and Custards piping hot. 1772 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley Tour to London I. 193 Their husbands robb'd, and made hard shifts T'administer unto their gifts All they could rap, and rend, and pilfer. 1801 C. B. Brown Jane Talbot iii. 20 Some how or another the wants of Francis had increased very much of late years, and swallowed up all that he could rap and rend without encroaching on his principal. 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Aloys in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 238 From foe and from friend He'd ‘rap and he'd rend’. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 408 He wraps and wrings all he can. 1872 R. Browning Fifine Epil. iv Let them..Make and mend, or rap and rend, for me! 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Rap and rear, to gather together by any means. 1905 in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 39/1 He'd tak owt 'at he could rap-an'-rain. 1997 B. Share Slanguage Rap or Run... Obtain by fair or unfair means;..scrape together. < as lemmas |
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