trapping
tra ping
- n stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
- v place in a confining or embarrassing position
- v catch in or as if in a trap
- v hold or catch as if in a trap
- v to hold fast or prevent from moving
- And some hydrologists say that by trapping silt the dam could actually make downstream riverbanks more vulnerable to flooding.
- It takes a forest twice the size of New Jersey to process that much of the heat-trapping gas.
- Fanned by 35-mile-an-hour gusts, fireballs leaped to other fully loaded planes, trapping the pilots inside.