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Meaning Of Trap
v. t.
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of
horses.
n.
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.
a.
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
n.
A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a
spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
n.
Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which
one may be caught unawares.
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.
n.
The game of trapball.
n.
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.
n.
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates
for want of an outlet.
n.
A wagon, or other vehicle.
n.
A kind of movable stepladder.
v. t.
To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
v. t.
Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
v. t.
To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a
sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
v. i.
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping
game; as, to trap for beaver.