Read full poem →Here was commons for their hills, where they seek for freedom still,
Though every common's gone and though traps are set to kill
The little homeless miners--O it turns my bosom chill
Dictionary Entry
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.
In a Sentence
“I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. trapstraps boobytraps fishtraps set
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Poetry examples for “traps”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With spuds and traps and horsehair string supplied,
He potters out to seek each fresh-made hill;
Read full poem →My French Indian Esquimaux,
And he's off setting traps,
In one himself perhaps.
Read full poem →Like nets & gins & traps to catch the joys of Eternity,