trap-door
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Your garret-windows therefore ſhould always be ſecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted."
- "A bell tinkles, and forthwith the trap-doors beneath the stage open and a variety of musical instruments, followed by an equally diversified assortment of heads, are thrust through."
- "It was reached by a trap-door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole."
- "Then I went to the roof. […] A ladder and a trap-door led to it, and it required some nice balancing on my part to get up with my useless arm. […] The roof of the empty house adjoined mine along the back wing, but investigation showed that the trap-door across the low dividing wall was bolted underneath."
- "Oozing and surging up out of that yawning trap-door in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an unbelievable behemothic monstrosity that I could not doubt the power of its original to kill with its mere sight."