Definition of Cantraps

1. cantrap [n] - See also: cantrap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantraps

cantonments
cantons
cantoon
cantoons
cantopop
cantor
cantoral
cantorial
cantoris
cantors
cantos
cantour
cantraip
cantraips
cantrap
cantraps (current term)
cantred
cantreds
cantref
cantrefs
cantrip
cantrips
cants
cantus
cantus firmus
cantuzumab
canty
canuding
canula

Literary usage of Cantraps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... us now to play his round 0' cantraps, tricks, an' juggles : An11 by the ingle cosie sit, ..."

2. Sir Walter Scott: The Story of His Life by Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1871)
"Why, Mr. Chantrey, no witch of old ever performed such cantraps with clay as this!" After Scott's baronetcy was officially announced, — and a good round sum ..."

3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"11 Where like a conjuror he'd sit, His black airt at some cantraps tryin'." T. Wilson, Tkt Pitman's Pay, 1827, pt. ii., v, 46. CANTY, lively, cheerful ..."

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