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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
trapan .
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Examples
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The "kids" were trapanned, by the fair promises of crimps or "spirits," in Scotland, Ireland, and England, where kidnapping formed an extensive and incredibly bold business.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The house was neatly furnished, and there was no young creature in it at that time but our unfortunate traveller, and a lady whose name was Lucinda, a young girl about eighteen years of age, who had been trapanned there, and ruined by a nobleman at that time famous for such villainous actions; this was the person that was with her at the play, when Monsieur Le Montague saw them.
The Inhuman Stepmother, or the History of Miss Harriot Montague Anonymous 1770
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