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