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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Well, sir," said Quackinboss, drawing himself up, "whenever you see me baitin' a rat-trap, I don't expect you 'll say, 'Colonel, ain't that mean?
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
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
It’s the worst old rat-trap I ever saw.
From Hepsey Burke by Frank N. (Frank Noyes) Westcott
He got the mistris to cut several stout logs, out of which they constructed a sort of gigantic rat-trap.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
In it lay the deceased lady with her long slit of a mouth shut like a rat-trap, and her hard eyes fixed on him.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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