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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And where there was a rat-trap, Klaus Heinrich, there were also rats….
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
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 Charles James Lever
Is your house to be like a rat-trap, and if a fellow puts his head in must he be caught?
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
Marrying a woman for her munny is vera mutch like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with yure own finger.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
A circular wire rat-trap, depending from a line held by someone on the poop, and containing two frantic rats, dangled against the opening.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
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