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Definition of "wolf-trap" [wolf-trap]

  • In heraldry, a bearing representing a curved bar having a ring fixed to the center of it. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "wolf-trap" in a sentence
  • "His bearded lips parted, but in that instant the Gael's hands shot to his throat and locked there like a wolf-trap."
  • "Five days back, on a steep slope of the valley not far from the wolf track to a watering place, and close to a belt of young fir-trees surrounded by a snow-topped coppice, some men from a neighbouring farm had set a powerful wolf-trap, above which they had thrown a dead calf."
  • "He struck at the Doomsman with his hunting-knife, but the latter caught his wrist with the grip of a wolf-trap."