| Trap |
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. |
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| Trap |
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. |
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| Trap |
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike. |
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| Trap |
A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. |
n. |
| Trap |
Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares. |
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