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

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.

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I combed not only the bright-light areas, but Harlem’s residential areas from best to worst, from Sugar Hill up near the Polo Grounds, where many famous celebrities lived, down to the slum blocks of old rat-trap apartment houses, just crawling with everything you could mention that was illegal and immoral.

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"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."

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So I set my mind to work to finish him; and as fortune had it, the old Tomb was as good as a rat-trap.

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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.

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