| Trap (trap) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Trap |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Trapped (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an
Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] |
To dress with ornaments] to adorn; -- said especially of
horses.
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An old term rather loosely used to designate various
dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-
augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some
kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
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Of or pertaining to trap rock;
as, a trap dike.
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A machine or
contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or
other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any
device by which one may be caught unawares.
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe,
used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of
which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other
end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons,
etc., to be shot at.
The game of trapball.
A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain,
soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal
which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of
liquids.
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air
accumulates for want of an outlet.
A wagon, or other vehicle.
A kind of movable stepladder.
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| Trap (trap) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Trap |
| [AS. treppan. See
Trap a snare.]
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To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap
foxes.
Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to
entrap.
To provide with a trap; as, to trap a
drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
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To set traps for game; to
make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
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