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Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]

A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.

an or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

ants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. I embroidered for you a beautiful pair of braces. Thackeray.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

A pair of Straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]

One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. Marryat.

olving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

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

Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side.

A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

t into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.

One who lays snares, or entraps.

e ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps. -- Soldier moth (Zoöl.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots. -- Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris).

One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.