Trapan

TO TRAPAN

To inveigle, or ensnare.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Tra*pan" (?), n. [OF. trappan. See Trap, and cf. Trepan a snare.]

A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.

South.

© Webster 1913.

Tra*pan", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trapanning.]

To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia. Anson.

© Webster 1913.