Tra·pan n.  A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.
  Tra·pan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapanned p. pr. & vb. n. Trapanning.] To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
     Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia.   --Anson.
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