·noun The game of trapball.
II. Trap ·noun A wagon, or other vehicle.
III. Trap ·noun A kind of movable stepladder.
IV. Trap ·adj Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
V. Trap ·vt To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
VI. Trap ·vt Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to Entrap.
VII. Trap ·vi To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
VIII. Trap ·vt To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. ·see 4th Trap, 5.
IX. Trap ·noun Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
X. Trap ·vt To dress with ornaments; to Adorn;
— said especially of horses.
XI. Trap ·noun A place in a water pipe, pump, ·etc., where air accumulates for want of an Outlet.
XII. Trap ·noun A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
XIII. Trap ·noun 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.
XIV. Trap ·noun 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.
XV. Trap ·noun 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.