ren : Idioms & Phrases
To rap and ren , To rap and rend
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Perhaps fr. Icel. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." Chaucer.hrapa to hurry andræna plunder, fr.ran plunder, E.ran .All they could rap and rend pilfer. Hudibras.
Webster 1913
To rape and ren
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Rap , v. t., to snatch.