galthrap

English

Noun

galthrap (plural galthraps)

  1. Archaic form of caltrop.
    • 1722, Isaac Kimber, The History of England, from the Earliest Accounts of Time, to the Death of the Late Queen Anne: In Four Volumes. ..., page 383:
      ... Galthrap into his Bed, which having three Iron Spikes, very sharp, stood up- wards, so that if he had chanced to have lyen down up- on it, it was almost impossible for him to have escaped Death, but discovering it before he went […]
    • 1846, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 672:
      ... galthrap, of the first. Crest - A galthrap on a hill, ppr.
    • 2016 September 1, Syed Ramsey, Tools of War: History of Weapons in Ancient Times, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, →ISBN:
      ... (... galthrap, galtrap, Jackrock calthrop or crow's foot) is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron) […]
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