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Mantrap   Listen
noun
Mantrap  n.  
1.
A trap for catching trespassers. (Eng.)
2.
A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mantrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Mantrap, Lady Betty Blackleg, the Countess of Sligo, Mrs. Langhorns, old Miss Biddy Buckskin, and your humble servant, keep up the spirit ...
— She Stoops to Conquer - or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. • Oliver Goldsmith
... with him, and that they would finish him when they got ready. He must have been half crazy with fear. Anyhow, he lost his hold and fell. He was dead before they reached him. From that day this has been called Mantrap Gulch." ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... sitting up and flinging his nightcap aside, "did you see that old grindress? Zounds and the devil, what are women? The old mantrap has got married at these years! Thank heaven, my grandmother is dead, or God knows what the devil might put into ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton


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