Sponsored Topics. Hartville is a city in Wright County, Missouri, United States. The population was 607 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wright County. Hartville is located at 37Â°15â²1â³N 92Â°30â²43â³W / 37.25028Â°N 92.51194Â°W / 37.25028; -92.51194 (37.250170, -92.511916), along the Woods Fork of the Gasconade River.
rape (plural rapes) ( 1 now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder. ( 2 now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
Though the sexual connotation is today dominant, the word rape can be used in non-sexual context in literary English. In Alexander Pope 's The Rape of the Lock, the title means the theft of a lock [of hair], exaggerating a trivial violation against a person. In the twentieth century, the classically trained J. R. R. Tolkien used the word with its old meaning of seizing and taking away in his  The Silmarillion .