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A trap for catching trespassers
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mantrap
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n. a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher , stunner , knockout , beauty , ravisher , sweetheart , peach , lulu , looker , dish ] a trap for catching trespassers
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Mantrap is a 1926 novel by Sinclair Lewis . One of Lewis' two unsuccessful novels of the 1920s, the other being The Man Who Knew Coolidge . Mantrap is the story of New York lawyer Ralph Prescott's journey into the wilds of Saskatchewan , and of his adventures ...
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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 &.
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.