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The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield. [Obs.] "Gigging of shields." Chaucer.

Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. Chaucer. Spenser.

A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.

A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]

A strong strap or cord. Especially: (a) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse. (b) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose. Shak. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. Trumbull.

A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.

opes on haps. Sir P. Sidney. Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shak.

A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.

The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak.

ter-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap. -- Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.

saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.

To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch. Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retairy versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. Coleridge.

A snare; a trap. Johnson.

ave some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.

Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper.