In criminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. In English law. An intermediate division between a shire and a hundred; or a division of a county, containing several hundreds. 1 Bl. Comm. 116; Cowell. Apparently peculiar to the county of Sussex. Rape of the forest. In old English law. Trespass committed in a forest by violence. Cowell. Rape-reeve. In English law. The chief officer of a rape, (g. v.) 1 Bl. Comm. 116.