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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...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Trap shooting

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• beau trap

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bully trap

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bum trap

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• louse trap

  A small toothed comb. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• man trap

  A woman's commodity. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• potatoe trap

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• trap sticks

  Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• clap-trap

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• grub-trap

  A vulgarism for the mouth. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• trap-creel

  A basket for catching lobsters. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• wentle-trap

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bear-trap dam

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• up to trap

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.