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ˈsand-trap
[f. sand n.2 + trap n.1]
1. A device for separating sand and other impurities from a stream of water or pulp passing through it, esp. in the manufacture of paper.
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. III. 2027/2 Sand-trap, a device for separating sand, etc., from water flowing through a pipe. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 221/2 From them the pulp is pumped into the supply-box, which communicates with the sand-traps by means of a regulating cock. 1927T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk 22 These sand traps are long, shallow, wooden troughs, the bottoms of which are covered by suitable rough-haired felt and baffle plates. 1963R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 68 Sand traps..are the small recesses in the trough of a beater or breaker which are covered with a perforated metal plate.
2. Golf. A bunker. Also fig.
1922Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert iv. 99 As for the deep sand-trap in front of the seventh green, he spent so much of his time in it that there was some informal talk..of charging him a small weekly rent. 1927Daily Express 29 Oct. 3/3 We cannot eliminate from the game that part of it which is played within the confines of the sandtraps. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xv. 212 He doesn't like soft sculpted sand-traps, which he likes to call bunkers. 1980Amer. Speech LV. 127 Sixteen pages of notes and documentation attest to the authors' concern for accuracy and good scholarship, even though the inevitable sandtraps occur where nonspecialists attempt specialized courses. |