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trap door

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

How To Use trap door In A Sentence

  • A glass trap door looks through in to the cellar from the kitchen, and a circular staircase winds its way up to the tower. Times, Sunday Times
  • TV footage from inside the Tokyo Detention House showed the trap door, the viewing room and rooms where the inmate can meet a cleric, with a Buddhist altar and a Buddha statue.
  • The earth was scraped away to uncover a trap door.
  • I used to inspect homes in a previous career and it never bothered me except for the ones where the opening is a trap door and all grandma would have to do is kick it down and slide the fridge over it and you would be trapped. Some things that creep me the fuck out
  • Lifting tackle can take up scenery and properties weighing a ton through a trap door in the roof to the second floor, 25 feet above.
  • Having given agency to the geometric ‘line’ itself, Boelhower envisages evasion of its universalising influence via cartographic toponyms whose inherent particularity opens ‘a trap door… in the written surface of the map’ .
  • In the ceiling a trap door and wooden ladder led out to the flat roof. A Time of War
  • There I retire to the dungeon under a trap door in the floor of my living room where my "lovelies" lie in wait. Woot! - One Day, One Deal
  • They shut the trap door behind me. Times, Sunday Times
  • He quickly made his way through the corridors, following that odd mark and keeping an eye out for tripwires, odd stones, and trap doors.
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