In some forms of fundamentalistProtestanteschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.