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plural trapans
A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. quotations examples
It is indeed a real Trapan upon the Reason , feeding it with Colours and Appearances , instead of Arguments
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
third-person singular simple present trapans, present participle trapanning, simple past and past participle trapanned
(transitive) To ensnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan. quotations examples
Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia.
1748, George Anson, A Voyage Round the World in 1740-4