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Trap (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
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Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer.
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To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser.
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There she found her palfrey trapped
In purple blazoned with armorial gold.
Tennyson.
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Trap, a. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
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Trap (?), v. t. [AS. treppan. See Trap a snare.]
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1. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
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2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. “I trapped the foe.” Dryden.
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3. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
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