WordNet
iron trap
n. a trap from which there is no escape
Usage examples of "iron trap".
The jaws of an iron trap had closed on his leg, with teeth that sank deep and held.
Patrolling the roads, again, and after almost two eight-days of plodding down the road to the west of the River Gallos, Cerryl had discovered nothing, not a single black iron trap.
Blows had no effect on the huge iron trap which had been built to resist many pounds of pressure.
Just a great iron trap, with steel jaws like those on a steam-shovel.
The iron trap was then lowered over his tomb, and the iron trap was blessed by nine priests and crossed ninety-nine times with holy water.