attrap

From French attraper (“to catch”).

attrap (third-person singular simple present attraps, present participle attrapping, simple past and past participle attrapped)

1. (transitive) To entrap; to ensnare.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Fift”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande , volume II, London: Henry Denham, , for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 464:

     The king before he would take his voyage, sent the Erle of Huntyngdon to ſerche and ſcowre the Seas, leaſt any Frenchmen lyeng in wayte for him might attrap him sodeinly, or he had any knowledge of their ſetting forward.

From ad- +‎ trap.

attrap (third-person singular simple present attraps, present participle attrapping, simple past and past participle attrapped)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn with trappings; to dress or array.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     and all his Steed With oaken Leaves attrap'd