TRAP DOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trap door mean? 

• TRAP DOOR (noun)
  The noun TRAP DOOR has 1 sense:

1. a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling

  Familiarity information: TRAP DOOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAP DOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("trap door" is a kind of...):

door (a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle)

 Context examples 

Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)