attrap

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verb

To entrap; to ensnare.

OriginFrench attraper →
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Meanings

verbattrap (third-person singular simple present attraps, present participle attrapping, simple past and past participle attrapped)

present singular third person attraps · participle present attrapping · participle past attrapped · past attrapped

  1. archaictransitiveTo entrap; to ensnare.

    The king before he would take his voyage, sent the Erle of Huntyngdon to ſerche and ſcowre the Seas, leaſt any Frenchmen lyeng in wayte for him might attrap him sodeinly, or he had any knowledge of their ſetting forward.

    1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Fift”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 464

Origin

  1. Frenchattraper“to catch”
  2. Englishattrap

From French attraper (“to catch”).

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