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Meanings of caltrop in English
Weapon with spikes.
Spanish
abrojo A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits.
Synonyms
Examples for "calthrop"
Examples for "calthrop"
1
Elsewhere on the plain he scattered calthrops-steelspikes-tolame the English horses.
2
I called upon Mr. Calthrop about the money due to my Lord.
3
Mr. Calthrop flushed painfully, but he forced himself courageously to answer.
4
Mr. Calthrop thanked him with becoming gratitude and departed to get the new holystones.
5
Simeon Calthrop, in a loud agitated voice, sang hymns as he swung his cutlass.
1
Settlement work in a beautiful woman generally means crowsfeet or a broken heart.
2
The man squinted through it, the crowsfeet around his eyes creasing his leathery skin.
3
Wrinkles and crowsfeet next must have their turn
4
He distinctly saw the crowsfeet round her eyes, the wrinkles round her mouth, and the swollen eyelids.
5
Modern methods of massage and cold cream have kept away the crowsfeet, and fortunately I had the Rogerson complexion to start with.
1
I put my horses in the paddock-therewas wild oats and crowsfoot knee-high in it-andhelped the overseer to muster and draft.
2
A patch of water crowsfoot grows on the farthest side of the pond, and in early summer sends up lovely white flowers.
3
Ragged-robin, yellow crowsfoot, purple orchis, filled the grass, intermixed with the blue of borage and the white and gold of the oxeye.
4
'Not me!' answered the sorcerer, holding up the crowsfoot and the five-leaved trefoil, 'for these will preserve me.
1
This will make the massage sweep back crosswise of the crow's feet.
2
The crow's feet around his eyes were caused by pudginess, not happiness.
3
They were pretty yet, but the crow's feet about them were plainly visible.
4
His eyes, bright and black as ever, lurked in a thicket of crow's feet.
5
I could see the corners of his eyes pinching to reveal little crow's feet.
1
Jack rocks backward into the seat, jolted.
2
Indeed, there's now another branded venue in the UK capital in the shape of the temporary Jack Rocks the Macbeth, sponsored by Jack Daniel's whiskey.
1
Then she added with a snort: "Hit's es black es er crow's foot."
2
The arrow head and crow's foot are ornamental fastenings used in fine tailoring as endings for seams, tucks, plaits, and at corners.
3
At Harvard College a badge formerly worn on the sleeve, resembling a crow's foot, to denote the class to which a student belongs.
4
She is a little stouter, of course; I can see a wrinkle and a crow's foot here and there; and her hair is grizzled.
5
As soon as she looked at Mr. Crow's foot Aunt Polly Woodchuck threw up both her hands.
1
Jack rocks backward into the seat, jolted.
2
Oh Daaaaahdeee- He slammed into Jack 's arms like a blunt arrow, making Jack rock on his feet.
3
Jack rocked on his heels.
4
Jack rocked against the door.
5
Indeed, there's now another branded venue in the UK capital in the shape of the temporary Jack Rocks the Macbeth, sponsored by Jack Daniel's whiskey.
Portuguese
estrepe Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America.
Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed.
Usage of caltrop in English
1
Sooner or later, the worm forsakes this kind of caltrop which catches on to everything.
2
Running battles in combat-centric role-playing games can be as painful as stepping on a caltrop.
3
One stepped on a caltrop hidden under the straw.
4
But would a caltrop harm a reaver?
5
It hissed in pain and raised its tail high, spraying a warning, as it pulled the caltrop from its foot.
6
Cursing, he picked his way across the ground, trying to avoid the caltrops.
7
Pits and spikes, caltrops scattered on the slopes, every breach mended.
8
In vain he plunged about among the caltrops and man-traps.
9
Deep pits were excavated in irregular rows, their bottoms decorated with spiked iron caltrops.
10
Miller and Caltrop were two-thirds of the Denholm County Schoolboard.
11
Geese and cranes, chicory, mildew, thistles, cleavers, caltrops, darnel and shade are farmer's enemies.
12
One day outside the grocery store, I ran into that upstanding schoolboard member Jessica Caltrop.
13
We've planted iron spikes under the water, y'see, and there's caltrops scattered among them rocks there.
14
When we faced the audience again, everyone was up and cheering except for Miller and Caltrop.
15
Or to snare stags with cords and caltrops?
16
The space between the ditches was filled with pits, and scattered with iron caltrops or hooked spikes.