Crossword clues for cantrip
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"magical spell," 1719, a Scottish word of uncertain origin; despite much speculation it is unclear even where the word is divided, whether the second element is rope (perhaps a reference to knotted cords as magical devices) or trappa "a step" or some other thing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick. 2 A wilful piece of trickery or mischiefChambers Dictionary, 1998, s.v.
Wikipedia
Cantrip is a word of Scots origin to mean a magical spell of any kind, or one which reads the same forwards and backwards. It can also be a witch's trick, or a sham. It is possibly derived from the Gaelic canntaireachd, a piper's mnemonic chant.
Usage examples of "cantrip".
He was wont to talk of these things to his friend Lord Cantrip, who was not a member of the Government, but who had been a colleague of both the Dukes, and whom the old Duke regarded with peculiar confidence.
A stomacher of intricate worked silver caught the gleam of the dying day, even through the rain and mist, as she turned away slightly in the darkness and worked some small cantrip that made the candelabra in her hand burst into warm flame.
Shal spoke the words of a simple cantrip, one she had tried only on much smaller, less volatile subjects, and did her level best to push the tornado away.
It held and came no closer, but she had to channel all her energies and repeat the cantrip three times to finally get it to turn back to sea.
The mist had lifted and the rooms of Myfleet Manor were full of light-strong, late summer sunlight that would show up the slightest vestige of dust, But Mrs Cantrip and Katje had been at work and there was no dust.
Mrs Cantrip, who had been taking ten minutes off with a cup of tea and the Daily Sketch.
Mrs Cantrip laid the dining table and left a cold dinner on the trolley.
Wexford, keeping his own voice low as they followed Mrs Cantrip down a long passage and into the garden via the kitchen.
He sidled past Wexford, roughly bruising cactus spikes as he made his escape, Suddenly in the doorway Mrs Cantrip loomed.
Mrs Cantrip must have entered the ancient house-to Wexford it appeared at least four hundred years old-by a black oak door which stood ajar.
Quentin stared at the door as if Nemesis itself awaited him on the other side of it, but he made no move, only nodding hmply when Mrs Cantrip marched out from the kitchen.
Katje, Mrs Cantrip, Will Palmer, Sean Lovell, Georgina Villiers-oh, and Lionel Marriott.
Annie Cantrip and Lionel Hepburn Marriott and correctly signed by your wife.
Emerging from the Old House and from the gate to the courtyard which surrounded it, he encountered Mrs Cantrip coming from the kitchen garden with a bunch of parsley in her hand.
Burden took his teacup from Mrs Cantrip, removing it as far as possible from the dead game.