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
He couldn't escape the illusion that he was dining at the Ambassador or the Waldorf Astoria—instead of in a five-story rat-trap.
From Forsyte's Retreat by Winston K. Marks
Being at a loss for a coachman, "I will go and see," says Cinderilla, "if there be never a rat in the rat-trap, that we may make a coachman of him."
From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Harry Clarke
Yes, this took time, and when they stood up after examining the rat-trap their faces were hot, and their clothes stiff with rust and dust.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
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