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trapdoor

or trap door

[ trap-dawr, -dohr ]

noun

  1. a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
  2. the opening that it covers.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or like a trapdoor.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of trapdoor1

First recorded in 1325–75, trapdoor is from Middle English trappe dore. See trap 1, door
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The civil judgement said entry was via a trapdoor and a 60m-long curved concrete tunnel.

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She knows the location of the hidden trapdoor that leads to the rafters of the arch above the nave.

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That relegation trapdoor might be creaking open for Carlisle...

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Reading need them to keep the trapdoor to League Two firmly shut.

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At the center of Messier 87, a giant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is a darkness 24 billion miles across and as massive as 6.5 billion suns — a trapdoor to infinity called a black hole.

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