Definition of trap

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Trap (v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver..

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Strap-shaped :: Strapple (v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle..
Trepan :: Trepan (n.) A snare; a trapan.
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) A trap or snare.
Ligulated :: Ligulated (a.) Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped..
Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
Gin :: Gin (v. t.) To catch in a trap.
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Snakehead :: Snakehead (n.) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car..
Caltrap :: Caltrap (n.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet..
Dionaea :: Dionaea (n.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.
Illaqueation :: Illaqueation (n.) A snare; a trap.
Gab :: Gab (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
Water Chestnut :: Water chestnut () The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop..
Insectivorous :: Insectivorous (a.) plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc..
Eelpot :: Eelpot (n.) A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.
Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..
Selvagee :: Selvagee (n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..
Satrapies :: Satrapies (pl. ) of Satrap.
Nail :: Nail (n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap..
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