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sticks
1) Household furniture. 2) Pops or pistols. Stow your sticks; hide your pistols. CANT. See pops. ...

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sticks
A familiar phrase for masts. ...

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Trap
·noun The game of trapball. II. Trap ·noun A wagon, or other vehicle. III. Trap ·noun A kind of mo...

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trap
To understand trap; to know one's own interest. ...

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cat sticks
Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat. See trap sticks. ...

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Trap shooting
·add. ·- Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a t...

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beau trap
A loose stone in a pavement, under which water lodges, and on being trod upon, squirts it up, to the...

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bully trap
A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in. ...

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bum trap
A sheriff's officer who arrests debtors. Ware hawke! the bum traps are fly to our panney; keep a goo...

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louse trap
A small toothed comb. ...

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man trap
A woman's commodity. ...

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potatoe trap
The mouth. Shut your potatoe trap and give your tongue a holiday; i.e. be silent. IRISH WIT. ...

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clap-trap
An artifice for attracting applause. Used chiefly in theatrical or political language. The managers...

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grub-trap
A vulgarism for the mouth. ...

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trap-creel
A basket for catching lobsters. ...

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wentle-trap
The Scalaria pretiosa, a very elegant univalve shell, much valued by collectors. ...

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Bear-trap dam
·add. ·- A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at t...

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up to trap
Knowing; shrewd. English and American. Phrenology is a little bit dangerous. It is only fit for an ...

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hold on, good sticks!
An apostrophe often made when the masts complain in a fresh squall, or are over-pressed, and it is u...

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