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Answer for the clue "A trap for catching trespassers ", 7 letters:
mantrap

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Mantrap is a 1926 American black-and-white silent film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis . Mantrap stars Clara Bow , Percy Marmont , Ernest Torrence , Ford Sterling , and Eugene Pallette , and directed by Victor Fleming .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mantrap \Man"trap`\, n. A trap for catching trespassers. [Eng.] A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.

Usage examples of mantrap.

Rows of yuccas were like green mantraps waiting to clash their sword-arms shut.

A glass wall and a mantrap separated the semicircular vault room from the rest of Beverly Hills Safe &amp.

For a week preceding their dawn-to-dusk occupancy, the defending side was permitted to swarm over the island, constructing a web of plywood barbicans and outworks, as well as varyingly symbolic entrenchments, deadfalls, and mantraps, all centering on a primitive fortress, little more than a stockade atop a mound of earth.

With the whisky-jack yelling at me to beware, I crept across this mantrap with exquisite care, the waters of the creek rushing two or three meters beneath me.