Caltrap - English meaning
Caltrap – definitions in English dictionary
nounA spiked metal device thrown on the ground to impede wheeled vehicles or (formerly) cavalry horses.
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Militant demonstrators threw a box of caltrops across the highwaynounA creeping plant with woody carpels that typically have hard spines and resemble military caltrops.
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Caltrop is quite rare in cottesloe, as far as i know, and it looks like this infestation may have b…nounAnother term for water chestnut (sense 3).
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Word origin
Old English calcatrippe, denoting any plant which tended to catch the feet, from medieval Latin calcatrippa, from calx ‘heel’ or calcare ‘to tread’ + a word related to trap1. caltrop (sense 1
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