Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trapping.]
[Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from
an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of
cloth.]
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of
horses.
Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering.
--Chaucer.
To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.
--Spenser.
There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned
with armorial gold. --Tennyson.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |