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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A stick used in the game of trap; an object resembling such a stick.
  2. n. The cross-bar connecting the body of a cart with the shafts.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A stick used in playing the game of trapball.
  2. n. figuratively, dated A slender leg.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.

Etymologies

  1. trap +‎ stick (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Well, he was at the top afore you could cry 'trapstick,' and it wasn't long till I was at the top too, and there we found a gate opening into the hill, and a power of lords and ladies waiting to resave Mahoon, who I larned was their king, and who had been away from his kingdom for twenty years, by rason of his being shut up in the box by some great fairy-man.”

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841

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