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Synonyms for trapping

Grammar : Verb
Spell : trap
Phonetic Transcription : træp

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Définition of trapping

Origin :
  • "contrivance for catching unawares," late Old English træppe "snare, trap," from Proto-Germanic *trap- (cf. Middle Dutch trappe "trap, snare"), related to Germanic words for "stair, step, tread" (cf. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German trappe, treppe, German Treppe "step, stair"). Probably akin to Old French trape, Spanish trampa "trap, pit, snare," but the exact relationship is uncertain. The connecting notion seems to be "that on which an animal steps." Sense of "deceitful practice, trickery" is first recorded c.1400. Sense in speed trap recorded from 1906. Slang meaning "mouth" is from 1776. Trap door "door in a floor or ceiling" (often hidden and leading to a passageway or secret place) is first attested late 14c.
  • verb catch, snare; trick
Example sentences :
  • He, accordingly, constructed a very ingenious apparatus to enable him to accomplish this trapping of this "germ dust" in the air.
  • Extract from : « The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered.--The Origination Of Living Beings » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • Why should he not take this man into his confidence, and so work out the trapping of the gang?
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • It was here, then, that he purposed establishing his first trapping trail.
  • Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
  • This was Charley's first trapping expedition in a real wilderness!
  • Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
  • In fact, my dear, this will be the only means of trapping the person.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Then up above somebody was trapping beaver, which was against the law.
  • Extract from : « Pluck on the Long Trail » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • They subsist by trapping the beaver, and hunting the buffalo and other animals.
  • Extract from : « The Desert Home » by Mayne Reid
  • Boone had been too busy hunting and trapping to put his claims on paper.
  • Extract from : « Daniel Boone » by Katharine E. Wilkie
  • But he remembered, in time, what the rancher had just said about trapping him.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Benny Badger » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • The winter passed in hunting, trapping, drinking, and gambling.
  • Extract from : « Dangers of the Trail in 1865 » by Charles E Young

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