Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RAP, v.t.²

1. 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.
2. To snatch or hurry away. And rapt with whirling wheels. – Spenser. Rapt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds. – Milton.
3. To seize by violence. – Drayton.
4. To exchange; to truck. [Low and not used.] To rap and rend, to seize and tear or strip; to fall on and plunder; to snatch by violence. They brought off all they could rap and rend. [See Rend.]