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Bible Dictionaries
Trap
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The game of trapball.
(2):
(n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
(3):
(v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
(4):
(v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; - said especially of horses.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
(7):
(n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
(8):
(n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(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.
(11):
(v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
(12):
(n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.
(13):
(n.) A kind of movable stepladder.
(14):
(v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
(15):
(v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Trap'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/trap.html. 1828.
