Trap /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping

1. To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

   Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering.

   To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.

   There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold.

1. 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. (Geol.)

1. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

1. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

   She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap.

2. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

   Let their table be made a snare and a trap.

   God and your majesty Protect mine innocence, or I fall into The trap is laid for me!

3. 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.
4. The game of trapball.
5. 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.
6. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
7. A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.]
8. A kind of movable stepladder.

1. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
3. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

1. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.