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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rat-trap

late 15c., from rat (n.) + trap (n.).

Usage examples of "rat-trap".

Downstairs, the icebox contained only a slab of rat-trap cheese and a loaf of stalish bread, both of which I devoured.

Bambi admitted Woozy the attorney, a long, cold, hairless being with the personality of a baited rat-trap and a briefcase of imitation lizard-skin.

There was also a mess of sticky diesel and fertilizer and a rat-trap and a bangstick-cartridge trigger.

I found a piece of jewellery in his saddle-bags with the Star of Evil graved upon it when I was setting rat-traps in his chamber.