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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Fowler’s “Improved Rat-Trap,” for which he was awarded an official U.S. patent in 1868, is included in the patent section of the Indiana Historical Society’s display.
From Washington Times
"Oh, I will go with you, and show you the way," exclaimed the lute-player: "I've no idea of staying here all by myself, as melancholy as a rat in a rat-trap."
From Project Gutenberg
The specimen from one kilometer east of El Barretal was caught in a rat-trap set in front of small hole in a fence of dead brush that surrounded a cornfield.
From Project Gutenberg
"Escape, O great princess; thy small servant is not clever and gifted, like the mole, or he would eat a hole through the end of this rat-trap; for to attempt it by the entrance would be to submissively ask the traitor Li-Kong to cut us all into ten thousand pieces," said Chow.
From Project Gutenberg
He got the mistris to cut several stout logs, out of which they constructed a sort of gigantic rat-trap.
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