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A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.

Example: I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.

A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

Example: Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

Example: Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.

A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

Example: to trap foxes

To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

To provide with a trap.

Example: to trap a drain

To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game

Example: trap for beaver

A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

The trapezius muscle.