noun

1. any device for catching animals, as one that snaps shut tightly when stepped on, or a pitfall; gin, snare, etc.
2. any stratagem or ambush designed to catch or trick unsuspecting persons
3. any of various devices for preventing the escape of gas, offensive odors, etc.; specif., a -shaped or -shaped part of a drainpipe, in which standing water seals off sewer gas
4. an apparatus for throwing disks into the air to be shot at in trapshooting
5. a light, two-wheeled carriage with springs
6. trapdoor
7. ☆
   1. a set of various percussion instruments, as cymbals, blocks, and bells, used with a set of drums, as in a jazz band
   2. these percussion instruments and the set of drums considered as a unit
8. Slang the mouth, specif. as the organ of speech
9. Golf sand trap

Etymology: ME trappe < OE træppe, akin to treppan, to step, Ger treppe, stairway < IE *dreb-, to run, step, trip (var. of base *drā-) > Pol drabina, ladder

transitive verb trapped, trapping trap′·ping

1. to catch in or as in a trap; entrap
2. to hold back or seal off by a trap
3. to furnish with a trap or traps
4. ☆ to catch (a batted ball in baseball or a thrown ball in football) just as it rebounds from the ground rather than just before it strikes the ground

intransitive verb

1. to set traps for game
2. ☆ to trap animals, esp. for their furs

noun

1. any of several dark-colored, usually fine-grained, extrusive igneous rocks; esp., such a rock, as basalt, used in road making
2. a geologic structure forming a reservoir enclosing an accumulation of oil or gas

Etymology: Swed trapp < trappa, stair (akin to trap), in reference to its appearance

transitive verb trapped, trapping trap′·ping

Etymology: ME trappen < trappe, trappings < OFr drap, cloth: see drape

noun

1. Obsolete an ornamental covering for a horse
2. Informal a person's clothes, personal belongings, etc.