Crossword clues for trapping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering.
--Chaucer.
To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.
--Spenser.
There she found her palfrey trapped
In purple blazoned with armorial gold.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. An instance of ensnaring something or someone. vb. (present participle of trap English) Etymology 2
n. An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison.
WordNet
n. a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion" [syn: snare]
a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise [syn: ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait]
informal terms for the mouth [syn: cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob]
a light two-wheeled carriage
v. place in a confining or embarrassing position; "He was trapped in a difficult situation"
catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel]
hold or catch as if in a trap; "The gaps between the teeth trap food particles"
to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: pin, immobilize, immobilise]
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Wikipedia
Trapping is the remote capture of animals.
Trapping may also refer to:
- Drug dealing; see trap music
- Trapping (martial arts), a fighting technique and range
- Trap (printing), a color management technique
- Mantrap, a security device
- Trapping (basketball), a basketball defense technique against pick and rolls
Animal trapping, or simply trapping, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including food, the fur trade, hunting, pest control, and wildlife management.
Trapping requires time, hard work and money but can be very efficient. Trapping has become expensive for the trapper, and in modern times it has become controversial, because of its cruelty. In part to address these concerns, in 1996, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, an organization made up of state and federal fish and wildlife agency professionals, began testing traps and compiling recommendations “to improve and modernize the technology of trapping through scientific research” known as Best Management Practices. As of February 2013, twenty best management practice recommendations have been published, covering nineteen species of common furbearers across North America.
Usage examples of "trapping".
I took it in both of mine and pressed the gnarled fingers back, rubbing my thumb gently over the thickened palmar aponeurosis that was trapping the tendons.
Nebula, their leaves and branchlets trapping starlight, the nourishment of drifting plants and animals, the moisture of fat rain clouds.
Jenks for trapping him in the bilboes and the brank, was not among them.
The boy was too young to be afraid of death and all its trappings, and was swinging from the effigy of the Dark King, Burnie Dhoone.
A new Inceptine order was being organized, and in fact all the trappings and facets of the old Church were here being duplicated at high speed, so that the Macrobians might be considered worthy rivals to the unenlightened of Charibon.
The walls were covered with fine paneling, the servants noted often, not the spidersilk trappings found in older rooms.
The stalwart princeling had carefully removed every jeweled badge from his trappings and, clad in plain, worn leather, with a basket-hilted rapier of common design, could presumably pass as a wandering mercenary warrior without question, at least under cursory inspection.
Church of Sant Juame, where tied just outside the front portal she found a huge, black stallion with silver trappings.
The evil tale was taken up in all its foul trappings, and, upon no better authority than the public voice, it was enshrined in chronicles by every scribbler of the day.
Mechter spun her right round, slammed the chair to a halt, and grabbed both of its arms, trapping Steyn in her seat.
Here the horrid creature squatted, surrounded by a hundred slave maidens sparkling in jewelled trappings.
How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen, To trappings of the tomb!
The Tropicana, The Taj Mahal, the trappings of Las Vegas, she drove without seeing it.
I told you he was unimpressed with the trappings of rank and authority.
THOUGH life in the courtyard of the Lady Aiee might have luxurious outer trappings, it was not, Ray discovered, an idle one for any of them.