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Answer for the clue "Trespasser's peril ", 7 letters:
mantrap

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 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 ...

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.