trapping : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: trapping	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for trapping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trapping n stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse Synonym(s): caparison, trapping, housing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trapping}.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. --Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson.