attrap
English
Verb
attrap (third-person singular simple present attraps, present participle attrapping, simple past and past participle attrapped)
- (transitive) To entrap; to ensnare.
- 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC; republished in Grafton’s Chronicle; or, History of England. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [George Woodfall] for J[oseph] Johnson; […], 1809, →OCLC:
- The king before he would take his voyage , sent the Erle of Huntyngdon to serche and scowie the Seas , least any Frenchmen lyeng in wayte for him might attrap him sodeinly
Verb
attrap (third-person singular simple present attraps, present participle attrapping, simple past and past participle attrapped)
- (transitive, obsolete) To adorn with trappings; to dress or array.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- and all his Steed With oaken Leaves attrap'd
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “attrap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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