rat-trap
Britishnoun
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a device for catching rats
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informal a type of bicycle pedal having serrated steel foot pads and a toe clip
Example Sentences
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The trap is almost precisely similar to the common rat-trap or gin still employed to destroy vermin, but greatly exaggerated in size, so that if stood on end it reaches to the waist, or above.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
What a rat-trap of a world it is, after all!
From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Guy Newell Boothby
She tossed her head as she said it, and I declare that her small white teeth snapped together like a rat-trap.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Our President, my boy, has a tale for every emergency, as a rat-trap has an emergency for every tail.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
A circular wire rat-trap, depending from a line held by someone on the poop, and containing two frantic rats, dangled against the opening.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
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