trapcut (trapkut)

See cut. trap-door (trap'dor'), n. [ "Here at this secre trappe - dore ," quod he. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 759. Here is the Trap - door, the mouth of the rich mine, which We'l make bold to open. Brome, Queens Exchange, v. Trap-door spider, one of several different spiders of large size, mostly of the genus Cteniza, whose nest is a tube with hinged lid which opens and shuts like a trap-door. Different spiders of this type construct their holes variously in size and shape, and with variable proportions of mud and cobweb, but the principle is the same with all. The trap-door arrangement is for their own hiding and security, not for the capture of their prey. Texan Trap-door Spider ( Pachylome. rus carol in ens is). trapel (trap), v. i.; pret. and pp. traped, ppr. traping. [Cf. D. MLG. G. trappen, tread, tramp: see trap1, trap2, tramp. Cf. also trapes.] 1. To trail along in an untidy manner; walk carele ly and sluttishly; run about idly; trapes. I am to go traping with Lady Kerry and Mrs. Pratt to see sights all this day. Swift , 2. To trail on the ground. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] trape2 (trap), n. [Cf. trap1 .] A pan, platter, They bear axillary solitary whitish flowers with the parts in fours. The species are known as water - caltrop from the horns or spines of the singular fruit, which con or dish. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] bains whinglabornsetthandele em, unequal cotyledons and a radicle which perforates the apex of the fruit in germinating. T. natans , the best known species, native from central Africa to Germany and central Asia, often cultivated elsewhere, and now naturalized in Ma achusetts in the Concord river, is known as water - chestnut or water - nut, sometimes as Jesu its' nut. Its seeds are ground and made into bread in parts of the south of Europe. T. bicorn is of China, there known as ling or leng, is cultivated in ponds by the Chinese for its fruit, which resembles a bullock's head with two blunt horns. T. bispinosa yields the Singhara nut of Cashmere, where it forms a staple food.