ren : Idioms & Phrases

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To rap and ren, To rap and rend

  • . 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.
Webster 1913

To rape and ren

  • . See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.
Webster 1913