mantrap

A mantrap is a device to capture a human.

He couldn't stop himself from falling and dropped fifteen feet down into the mantrap.

As a matter of fact, that's what I came into your office to discuss, you gorgeous mantrap.'

Just like the hand X-ray and the mantrap.

An iron mantrap is mounted on the wall to the rear of the archway.

Then he lays down a large mantrap in his living room and sends Amy upstairs to hide.

A gruesome mantrap shows that feeding the family wasn't always a doddle.

"If you know anything about this mantrap that'll make him slow down for a bit, you tell it to him tonight."

She bought a new kind of mantrap.

Skatestoppers have been described as a mantrap by some skateboarders.

"They'll find where you took that communicator apart, Bus, just as sure as hell's a mantrap!"

God, what a mantrap, he thought.

Using his hand again like a model pointing out prizes on a game show, Grant indicated a boxlike device beside the door to the mantrap.

He followed Grant into the mantrap.

"Always seems to me," said Wemmick, "as if he had set a mantrap and was watching it.

Mantrap is a 1926 novel by Sinclair Lewis.

Ryan's cameraman is caught and nearly killed by a mantrap hidden in the sand to protect a stash of drugs.

Wayne made appearances on several game shows including Mantrap and Hollywood Squares.

They climbed as high again till their points nearly touched, vast crooked fingers, a god sized ivory mantrap.

Being caught thus by one foot in Roosevelt's mantrap, he quickly proceeded to be caught by the other.

A cruel device, a mantrap, it has caused many a poacher to lose a leg - even a life, should blood poisoning set in.

The mantrap was occupying his thoughts.

But they've got jaws like a mantrap."

Its jaws looked like a fur-lined mantrap.

She was a mantrap.