trap

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[træp]
n
a mechanical device or enclosed place or pit in which something, esp an animal, is caught or penned
any device or plan for tricking a person or thing into being caught unawares
anything resembling a trap or prison
a fitting for a pipe in the form of a U-shaped or S-shaped bend that contains standing water to prevent the passage of gases
any similar device
a device that hurls clay pigeons into the air to be fired at by trapshooters
any one of a line of boxlike stalls in which greyhounds are enclosed before the start of a race
See trap door
a light two-wheeled carriage
a slang word for mouth
an obstacle or hazard, esp a bunker
percussion instruments
a policeman
vb
to catch, take, or pen in or as if in a trap; entrap
to ensnare by trickery; trick
to provide (a pipe) with a trap
to set traps in (a place), esp for animals
trap

trap&+{2}
[træp]
n
an obsolete word for trappings
vb
to dress or adorn
See traps
trap

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[træp]
n
any fine-grained often columnar dark igneous rock, esp basalt
any rock in which oil or gas has accumulated