A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
The trapezius muscle.
Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.
From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to s...
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Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.
To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
To decke his herce, and trap his tomb-blacke steed