Hinged floor opening

Usage examples of trapdoor.

That trapdoor also snapped shut, leaving Burman gaping down at his torn clothing from which his expensive watch and equally expensive gold chain had been ripped away.

Doubling her body, she disappeared into a narrow trapdoor beneath the drumskin, and the drum began to glide back to its berth below the Fiata.

The opened trapdoor revealed a steep set of ladderlike steps, and cold and moist air washed over her as she descended.

They all wore rough fighting garb, leadier, and gambesons, but no metal armor, which would make noise and warn away someone coming up through the trapdoor.

Linemen told each other frontier stories, pioneer tales, of ghosts in the net, strange codes or secret trapdoors leading to fantastically detailed alien virtualities, odd conversations with disembodied people with no lookup addresses.

This one was about the size of the trapdoor spider on which the pepsis wasp had laid its egg.

Knights were smashing on the trapdoor with swords and battleaxes, and soon it would give way.

It would open a trapdoor under the deniers, and remove the only justification, however flimsy, for blocking the evacuation project.

It had rotted away from the screws that held it to the sidepieces near the bow and cracked right in two midway between that point of attachment and the first crosspiece, opening downward like a double trapdoor.

He slid open the panel of the instrument console, turned a knob, and trapdoors in the trunk of Black Beauty flew apart for the Hornet Scanner on its launching pad.

He cursed, grabbed for the control handle, but before he could swing the shield, a section of lawn the size of a street manhole lifted like a trapdoor behind the chigger and in the full glare of the handlight.

So, after Trapdoor had broken into CCU's computer Phate had driven from the Bay View Motel to this place, where his second laptop was warmed up and waiting for him, online via a virtually untraceable cell phone connection through a South Carolina Internet provider, linked to an anonymizing Net launch pad in Prague.

Most of the basic techniques of computer intrusion: password cracking, trapdoors, backdoors, trojan horses--were invented in college environments in the 1960s, in the early days of network computing.

Admirable wedges those tapering browned-iron blades would make to keep the trapdoor shut, the Mouser told himself.

Then with the help of Bufo and Dooly, he scraped away dirt and brush from atop what turned out to be a trapdoor made of heavy wooden planks, worm-eaten and dark from having been buried.