trapan (trapan)

[Also, le prop., trepan; trap. [Obsolete or archaic.] Nothing but gins and snares and trapans for souls. South, Sermons, III. iv. 2. Same as trapanner. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan . Macaulay . trapan (tra-pan'), v . t .; pret. and pp. trapanned , ppr. trapanning . [Also, le prop., trepan ; My steed's trapan'd , my bridle's broken. Fire of Frendraught (Child's Ballads, VI. 179). Lest I might be trapan'd and sold as a Servant after my arrival in Jamaica. Dampier , Voyages, II. ii. 4. 'Tis strange, a fellow of his wit to be trepan'd into a marriage. Steele , Lying Lover, ii. 1. IMG:content-0771.png:[blocks in formation] trap-ball (trap'bâl), n. 1. An old game played by two or more persons with a ball, bat, and trap (see trap1, n., 5). By striking the end of the pivoted trap with the bat, the ball is driven some distance. The side or players out retire the striker by catching the batted ball on the fly or by bowling it to the trap from the place where it falls. He that of feeble nerves and joints complains From nine-pins, coits, and from trap - ball abstains. W. King, Art of Cookery, 1. 478. Trap - ball is anterior to cricket, and probably coeval with most of the early games played with the bat and ball; we trace it as far back as the commencement of the fourteenth century. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 176. 2. The ball used in the game of trap-ball. He went in and out of Hawk's Gully like a trapball , and was in Springfield "in le than no time." A. B. Long street , Georgia Scenes, p. 116. trapes (traps), n. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, ii. 15. [Also traipse : see trapes , v .] From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg. Than marry such a trapes . Gay, What d'ye call it? i. 1. 2. A going about; a tramp. It's such a toil and a trapes up them two pair of stairs. Mrs. Henry Wood , The Channings, lix. trapezate (trap'ē-zāt), a . [ trapezium + -atel .] Trapeziform.