What is fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. "I trapped the foe." Dryden called?
trap — Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. "I trapped the foe." Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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