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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His blasted jingling old rat-trap has called the whole household to look at us!—and, may I never, if he has n't broken something!
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
In it lay the deceased lady with her long slit of a mouth shut like a rat-trap, and her hard eyes fixed on him.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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 Marks, Winston K.
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 The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Alvarez, Ticul
But I had a good look at you, there in your friend's old Devonshire rat-trap.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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