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A trap for catching trespassers
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mantrap
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alt. 1 A mechanical device for catching trespassers. 2 A small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens, used to restrict access. n. 1 A mechanical device for catching trespassers. ...
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Mantrap or man trap may refer to: In devices : Mantrap (snare) , a mechanical device for catching trespassers Mantrap (access control) , a double-door single-person access control space In films : Mantrap (1926 film) , a silent film based on the Lewis novel ...
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 &.
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.