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Trespasser's bête noire
Answer for the clue "Trespasser's bête noire ", 7 letters:
mantrap
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mantrap , air lock , sally port or access control vestibule is a physical security access control system comprising a small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens. In a manual ...
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 &.
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.