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Trap

Trāp, n.

noun

n. [A-S. treppe, trappe, O. H. Ger. trapo, L. Lat. trappa, Fr. trappe, Pr. trappa, Sp. trampa, It. trappola.]

  1. An engine or contrivance that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as, a trap for foxes.
  2. An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.

Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Rom. xi. 9. I fall into the trap is laid for me. Shak.

  1. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trap-ball. It is furnished with a piece of wood much like a spoon in form, balanced on a pivot, and having a bowl in which the ball is put at the heel end of the instrument. When the other end of the spoon is struck, the ball flies up, and is struck while in the air; also, the game in which the instrument is used; trap-ball. Halliwell.
  2. A drain-pipe for sinks, siphons, and the like.
  3. A wagon, or other similar conveyance. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
  4. A kind of movable ladder or steps. Simmonds.
  5. (pl.) [See TRAPPINGS, and TRAP, v. t., 3.] Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; furniture. [Collog.]

Trāp, a.

adjective

a. Of, or pertaining to, trap-rock; as, a trap dike.

Trāp, n.

noun

n. [Sw. trapp, from trappa, Dan. trappe, Ger. treppe, stairs, because the rocks of this class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one another, like steps.] (Min.) A heavy, igneous rock, of a greenish-black or grayish color, consisting of an intimate mixture of feldspar and hornblende or pyroxene. When consisting of hornblende and albitic feldspar, it is called diorite; when of pyroxene and Labradoritic feldspar, dolerite; when, in the latter, chrysolite is present, basalt; when containing nodules disseminated through the rock, amygdaloid. It is also called greenstone.

Trāp, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. TRAPPED (trāpt); p. pr. & vb. n. TRAPPING.] [A-S. treppan, betreppan, O. D. & L. Ger. trappen, Fr. attraper, Pr. atrapar, Sp. atrapar, atrampar, It. attrampare.]

Sense 1. To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver.

Sense 2. To insnare; to take by stratagem. “I trapped the foe.” Dryden.

Sense 3. [See ATTRAP.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn. [Rare.] “To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.” Spenser.

There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

Trāp, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.