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rat-trap

noun

  1. a device for catching rats
  2. informal.
    a type of bicycle pedal having serrated steel foot pads and a toe clip
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I put him into the best substitute for a bird-cage that I could find, and that was a large wire rat-trap!

Marrying a woman for her munny is vera mutch like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with yure own finger.

The old lady recovers her health—the future shuts down like a rat trap and what does the poor girl do?

His blasted jingling old rat-trap has called the whole household to look at us!

Cinderella brought the rat-trap to her, and in it there were three huge rats.

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