Trap-door

Quick meaning: Trap-door is a noun meaning Archaic form of trapdoor.

Meaning

Archaic form of trapdoor.

Example Sentences

Your garret-windows therefore ſhould always be ſecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted.

It was reached by a trap-door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.

A bell tinkles, and forthwith the trap-doors beneath the stage open and a variety of musical instruments, followed by an equally diversified assortment of heads, are thrust through.

Oozing and surging up out of that yawning trap-door in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an unbelievable behemothic monstrosity that I could not doubt the power of its original to kill with its mere sight.

Word Forms

• trap-doors

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