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Cantrap

Cantrap \Can"trap\, Cantrip \Can"trip\, n. [Cf. Icel. gandar, ODan. & OSw. gan, witchcraft, and E. trap a snare, tramp.] A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.

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cantrap

n. (alternative form of cantrip English)

Usage examples of "cantrap".

By using a suitable cantrap, I am able to lift up impalpable threads composed of pure starlight and water-skein.

Bazzard instructed him in that cantrap controlling the Twelve-fold Bounty.

But there is one called Pandelume, who knows all the spells, all the incantations, cantraps, runes, and thaumaturgies that have ever wrenched and molded space .