rat-trap

noun

1. a device for catching rats
2. informal.
   a type of bicycle pedal having serrated steel foot pads and a toe clip

Example Sentences

I put him into the best substitute for a bird-cage that I could find, and that was a large wire rat-trap!

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Marrying a woman for her munny is vera mutch like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with yure own finger.

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The old lady recovers her health—the future shuts down like a rat trap and what does the poor girl do?

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His blasted jingling old rat-trap has called the whole household to look at us!

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Cinderella brought the rat-trap to her, and in it there were three huge rats.

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