Trapdoor

Definition

trapdoor /'træpdↄ:(r)/ (also trap ) n (ၾကမ္းျပင္၊ မ်က္ႏွာၾကက္၊ အမိုးရိွ) အံဝွက္တံခါး။

Examples

1. ‘We had ascended the steep staircase and out through a narrow trapdoor on to the roof of the tower
2. high above the battlements of his creaking ancestral pile.’
3. ‘It was a normal looking place
4. some trees in the back
5. a little wooden house ahead
6. and a trapdoor on the floor.’
7. ‘He descended a ladder and went down through a trapdoor to the 5th floor.’
8. ‘Then she slowly slid open a trapdoor in the floor.’
9. ‘And in the centre of the floor
10. a wooden trapdoor stood open.’
11. ‘Both sides of the hall were lined with doors and even the ceiling had trapdoors spaced at periodic intervals in it.’
12. ‘He tiptoed over to a trapdoor in the roof and pulled it slowly.’
13. ‘He strode angrily to the other trapdoor on his roof
14. the one that led to the two rooms where his sons dwelled.’
15. ‘I looked at the trapdoor in the roof
16. which led down to where they were.’
17. ‘The sailor opened the trapdoor and the rusty hinges squealed loudly.’
18. ‘The stricken ship is presented simply but effectively using a rope ladder for the rigging
19. which hung from the ceiling above a trapdoor
20. which served as the ship's hatchway.’
21. ‘Meet the trapdoor spiders
22. famed for their silk-lined burrows complete with emergency exits
23. hinged trapdoors and careful camouflage.’
24. ‘Obeying a nameless impulse to look up
25. I detected the hair-thin outline of a square trapdoor in the high ceiling.’
26. ‘There's a trapdoor in the ceiling: the time capsule takes us up through it
27. and we're in the family's living quarters: the whole family gathered around the hearth.’
28. ‘After a while
29. a trapdoor in the roof opened
30. and a girl clambered out.’
31. ‘Luckily for our boys
32. it also has a trapdoor in the floor leading conveniently into a series of maintenance tunnels which are accessible through any manhole in Montreal.’
33. ‘It contained a trapdoor on the ceiling
34. which she opened and pulled out a ladder.’
35. ‘A scampering noise beat across the ceiling before a little trapdoor opened with a dull thud
36. previously completely invisible to all in the bar.’
37. ‘She stared at the floor
38. where the trapdoor had once been.’
39. ‘Under polite questioning from the audience
40. he acknowledged that some closed-source commercial products have been found to have trapdoors themselves.’