trapstick

English

Etymology

trap +‎ stick

Noun

trapstick (plural trapsticks)

1. A stick used in playing the game of trapball.
2. (figuratively, dated) A slender leg.
   • 1714 July 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, June 25, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 559; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     These had made a foolish swop between a couple of thick bandy legs and two long trapsticks that had no calves to them

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trapstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)