Ransack, 1) to pillage, to plunder: “and I, a drone-like bee, have no perfection of my summer left, but robbed and --ed by injurious theft,” Lucr. 838. “my coffers --ed,” Wiv. II, 2, 306. “I would have --ed the pedlar's silken treasury,” Wint. IV, 4, 360. “--ing the church,” John III, 4, 172. “to r. Troy,” John III, 4, 172.
2) to ravish: “the --ed queen,” Troil. II, 2, 150.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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