Definition of trap

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Trap (n.) 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..

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Leap :: Leap (n.) A weel or wicker trap for fish.
Trap :: Trap (v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes..
Illaqueate :: Illaqueate (v. t.) To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.
Crimp :: Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..
Strap :: Strapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stra.
Passionist :: Passionist (n.) A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross..
Trapezia :: Trapezia (pl. ) of Trapeziu.
Trap :: Trap (v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver..
Strap :: Strap (n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap..
Train :: Train (v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare..
Intrapetiolar :: Intrapetiolar (a.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning..
Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout..
Extraparochial :: Extraparochial (a.) Beyond the limits of a parish.
Strapple :: Strapping (a.) Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow..
Trap :: Trap (v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Mygale :: Mygale (n.) A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii)..
Choke-strap :: Choke-strap (n.) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place..
Trapezoidal :: Trapezoidal (a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.
Entrap :: Entrap (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men..
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