trapping

verbcatch, snare; trick

Synonyms for trapping

verb catch, snare; trick

Antonyms for trapping

Word Origin & History

"contrivance for catching unawares," late Old English træppe "snare, trap," from Proto-Germanic *trap- (cf. Middle Dutch trappe "trap, snare"), related to Germanic words for "stair, step, tread" (cf. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German trappe, treppe, German Treppe "step, stair"). Probably akin to Old French trape, Spanish trampa "trap, pit, snare," but the exact relationship is uncertain. The connecting notion seems to be "that on which an animal steps." Sense of "deceitful practice, trickery" is first recorded c.1400. Sense in speed trap recorded from 1906. Slang meaning "mouth" is from 1776. Trap door "door in a floor or ceiling" (often hidden and leading to a passageway or secret place) is first attested late 14c.

Example Sentences for trapping

He, accordingly, constructed a very ingenious apparatus to enable him to accomplish this trapping of this "germ dust" in the air.

Why should he not take this man into his confidence, and so work out the trapping of the gang?

It was here, then, that he purposed establishing his first trapping trail.

This was Charley's first trapping expedition in a real wilderness!

In fact, my dear, this will be the only means of trapping the person.

Then up above somebody was trapping beaver, which was against the law.

They subsist by trapping the beaver, and hunting the buffalo and other animals.

Boone had been too busy hunting and trapping to put his claims on paper.

But he remembered, in time, what the rancher had just said about trapping him.

The winter passed in hunting, trapping, drinking, and gambling.

trapping

Synonyms for trapping

Antonyms for trapping

capture

captures

deceit

furnishing

hunting

trapping

Synonyms for trapping

Antonyms for trapping

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