Word Meanings - PITFALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
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- SNARE
An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a - AMBUSHER
One lying in ambush. - PITFALLING
Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton. - SNARER
One who lays snares, or entraps. - AMBUSHMENT
An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13. - PITFALL
A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North. - STRATAGEM
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but - AMBUSH
1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton. - NOOSE
A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn. - STRATAGEMICAL
Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift. - INSNARER
One who insnares. - INSNARE
Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle. - ENSNARE
To catch in a snare. See Insnare. - BURNOOSE; BURNOUS
cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, 1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs. - ENAMBUSH
To ambush.