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Definition of Trapan
1. n. A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.
2. v. t. To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
Definition of Trapan
1. to trepan [v -PANNED, -PANNING, -PANS] - See also: trepan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapan
Literary usage of Trapan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"3. 1.617. Usually spelt trepan, as in Phillips, by a ridiculous confusion with
the word above. Rightly spelt trapan in South's Sermons, vol. v. ser. ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"Der. trap, vb. i trap-door, trap-bat. trapan, trepan (2), to ensnare. ... trapan ;
see Trap (i). Trapezium, Trapeze ; sec Tetragon. Trappings; see Trap (a). ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"In a figurative sense: snare, gin (literary), net, trepan or trapan (archaic),
ambush. trap, vt 1. catch, entrap (rare or literary), ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson by Lucy Hutchinson, Harold Hannyngton Child (1904)
"... unwarily to open herselfe so much to one of the souldiers in present employment,
whom she did not know but he might be sett on purpose to trapan her. ..."
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