Vocabulary : Transversing to Trapan

Transversing : of Transverse
Transversion : The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Transvert : To cause to turn across; to transverse.
Transvertible : Capable of being transverted.
Transvolation : The act of flying beyond or across.

Trant : To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle.
Tranter : One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
Trap : To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. ;; An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock. ;; Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike. ;; A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. ;; Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares. ;; A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at. ;; The game of trapball. ;; A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal whi
Trap shooting : Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap.
Trapan : A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. ;; To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

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