Trap-door

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of trapdoor. alt-of, archaic

    "Your garret-windows therefore ſhould always be ſecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted."

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dropdrophatch

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"She then went to look into the mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive. She ordered Cinderella to lift the trap-door, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, it was that moment turned into a fine horse, and the six mice made a fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored, dapple gray."

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