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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 "water chestnut"
Examples for "water chestnut"
1
For each ramaki, wrap frank slice and water chestnut slice with bacon; secure with toothpick.
2
No one thing was more generally hawked about the streets of China than the water chestnut.
3
In later years, instead of an injection, the drug was a circular, oral wafer, like a small water chestnut.
4
While cornstarch is a popular thickener in North America, starches made from tapioca, arrowroot, and even water chestnut are used throughout Asia.
5
For 12 yuan ($2.50) you get three massive pork and chive dumplings with water chestnut.
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.