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
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"You 're all safe now," said I; "keep round by the wall, but take care of the rat-trap near the corner."
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
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
One was shot through the thigh, and after the Bishop had dressed her wound, Mr. Walters said quaintly, "Poor thing, she has not meat enough on her bones to bait a rat-trap."
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall
Cinderella brought in the rat-trap, which contained three big rats.
From Old-Time Stories by Charles Perrault
She tossed her head as she said it, and I declare that her small white teeth snapped together like a rat-trap.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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