To rap and ren , To rap and rend Meaning, Definition & Usage

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1. . Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and ræna plunder, fr. ran plunder, E. ran. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." Chaucer.

   All they could rap and rend pilfer. Hudibras.