Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stick used in the game of trap; an object resembling such a stick.
- noun The cross-bar connecting the body of a cart with the shafts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stick used in playing the game oftrapball . - noun figuratively, dated A
slender leg .
Etymologies
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trap + stick
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Examples
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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 Various
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