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Staff split over threat to trespassers
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mantrap
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Word definitions for mantrap in dictionaries
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.
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. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mantrap is a mechanical physical security devices for catching poachers and trespassers. They have taken many forms, the most usual being like a large foothold trap , the steel springs being armed with teeth which met in the victim's leg. Since 1827, ...
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.