Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [F. r[^a]pe a grape stalk.]
   1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray.

   2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which
      the must has been expressed in wine making.

   3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying
      and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

   {Rape wine}, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of
      pressed grapes.

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.

Rape \Rape\, v. t.
   To commit rape upon; to ravish.

Rape \Rape\, v. i.
   To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.

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.

Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. ?, ?, 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.

   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 ({B.
         oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}.

   {Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary.

   {Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been
      expressed from the seed.

   {Rape root}. Same as {Rape}.

   {Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.

Source : WordNet®

rape
     v 1: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman
          was raped on her way home at night" [syn: {ravish}, {violate},
           {assault}, {dishonor}, {dishonour}, {outrage}]
     2: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the
        beautiful country" [syn: {spoil}, {despoil}, {violate}, {plunder}]

rape
     n 1: Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
          [syn: {colza}, {Brassica napus}]
     2: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: {rapine}]
     3: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse
        against her will [syn: {violation}, {assault}, {ravishment}]