trap

1. v. t. To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. a. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike. Source: opted

4. n. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. Source: opted

5. n. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares. Source: opted

6. n. 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. Source: opted

7. n. The game of trapball. Source: opted

8. n. 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. Source: opted

9. n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet. Source: opted

10. n. A wagon, or other vehicle. Source: opted

11. n. A kind of movable stepladder. Source: opted

12. v. t. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes. Source: opted

13. v. t. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. Source: opted

14. v. t. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5. Source: opted

15. v. i. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver. Source: opted

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