To confine a bird to a nest box of this kind.

plural of trap-house

Alternative form of trap house

Alternative spelling of Venus flytrap

(linguistics) a vowel split in some varieties of English (such as British English as spoken in southern England, American English spoken in Boston, and Australian, New Zealand and South African English) in which the phoneme /æ/, as pronounced in other varieties of English, is pronounced in some words as /ɑː/.

(Australia) a particular type of crab pot with netting supported by two curved structures on top.

(US, informal) Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.

A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.

plural of bear-trap dam

(entomology, informal) Any of a group of carnivorous ants, of the genus Odontomachus, that have mandibles that can snap shut on prey