Trapping - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Trapping :  (noun)

1: stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trappings, housing, housings]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. --Chaucer.

To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser.

There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

Example Usage of Trapping

RosietheJones: On the train to Birmingham, my bag split as I was packing and I have managed to sort of close it, Trapping my laptop and magazines inside :(
ustrials: investigation of antidepressant eff of low-Trapping mixed nr2a/2b antagonist in trtmt-resistant major depression http://bit.ly/62V0UW
goclinicaltrial: investigation of antidepressant eff of low-Trapping mixed nr2a/2b antagonist in trtmt-resistant major depression http://bit.ly/62V0UW
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