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Word Meanings - PITFALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.

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  • SNARE
    An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
  • AMBUSHER
    One lying in ambush.
  • PITFALLING
    Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
  • SNARER
    One who lays snares, or entraps.
  • AMBUSHMENT
    An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13.
  • PITFALL
    A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
  • STRATAGEM
    An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
  • AMBUSH
    1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.
  • NOOSE
    A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
  • STRATAGEMICAL
    Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift.
  • INSNARER
    One who insnares.
  • INSNARE
    Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
  • ENSNARE
    To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
  • BURNOOSE; BURNOUS
    cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, 1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
  • ENAMBUSH
    To ambush.

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