[f. TRAP v.1 and sb.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Caught in or as in a trap; also, caught in a mistake in class at school (Sc.).

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 499/2. Trappyd, or be-trappyd and gylyd…, deceptus, illaqueatus.

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1552.  Huloet, Trapped, irretitus.

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1884.  Pall Mall G., 8 Aug., 11/2. 3,000 trapped rabbits, from this particular warren.

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1894.  H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 93. ‘What do you want me to do?’ asked the trapped gentleman.

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1895.  Crockett, Bog-Myrtle & Peat, 163. The trapped boys sometimes rectified matters at the back of the school at the play-hour, when fists became a high court of appeal and review.

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  2.  Furnished with a trap or traps, as a drain, etc.

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1892.  T. B. F. Eminson, Epidemic Pneumonia at Scotter, 10. Four … nominally trapped inlets.

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