Definition of Trap block

1. Noun. (American football) an illegal block.

Category relationships: American Football, American Football Game
Generic synonyms: Block, Blocking

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trap Block

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trap-door spider
trap block (current term)
trap door
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Literary usage of Trap block

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1871)
"That on the 15th day of May, 1868, an assessment for paving Eighth avenue with trap block pavement, between Forty-second and Fifty-eighth streets, ..."

2. Standard Practical Plumbing: Being a Complete Encyclopædia for Practical by Philip John Davies (1892)
"250 ; which trap block Fio. 260. is all the better for being warmed ; now splash on tho solder ; first begin to splash it on slowly, then by increasing the ..."

3. Official Documents, Addresses, Etc., of George Opdyke: Mayor of the City of by New York (N.Y.), (George Opdyke (1866)
"The trap-block or Belgian pavement has, with great propriety, I think, been adopted in all the later ordinances of the Common Council. ..."

4. Journal and proceedings by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment (1879)
"With your authority and approval, the appropriation of 1877 was expended in laying 105624 square yards of new granite and trap-block pavements, ..."

5. Pavements and Roads: Their Construction and Maintenance by Edward G. Love (1890)
"... of pavement. not The more common kinds are granite or trap-block, wood, brie and asphalt. : GRANITE OR TRAP-BLOCK PAVEMENT. These blocks, with various ..."

6. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1882)
"This method of soldering on the dip first is far the best plan, if you have a proper trap-block for the purpose, which is nothing more than having a hole ..."

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