Trap Doors

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Trap Doors

in a theater, openings in the floor of a stage, formed by replacing one or several floorboards with a frame of the same dimensions. Some trap doors designed for various theatrical effects, such as sudden disappearances and appearances of persons and objects, are equipped with platforms that can be raised and lowered.

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No references found			If they are unsure of the answer they can spread the money across the trap doors, but if the answer iswrong their winnings will fall through the doors and be lost forever. THE MILLION POUND DROP; TELEVISION by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) At the Opening Ceremony, an apparent equipment glitch left the 60,000-member audience at the indoor stadium wondering what happened when there was a long delay and eventually only three of the four arms of the cauldron emerged from trap doors on the floor of the stadium. Cauldron finally finds itself with a leg to stand on by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman) For a start, the staging by Tom Piper may be minimal but the white background which allows various doors to open is complemented by a stage floor with similar trap doors which ensure some dramatic entrances and exits. Poetry casts magic spell; REVIEWS by Birmingham Mail (England)			transverse shear transverse stability transverse strength transverse thrust transverse valley transverse vibration Transverse Volcanic Axis transverse wave Transverse Waves transversely excited atmospheric pressure laser Transversion Transvestism transvestite Transylvania Transylvania Company Transylvania County Transylvanian Alps Transylvanian Peasant Uprising of 1784–85 Transylvanian Plateau transyte Trap trap address Trap Bands Trap Ditches trap door Trap Doors trap elevator trap mine Trap Pond State Park trap rock trap seal Trap Trees trap vent trap-door function trap-door spider Trapaceae Trapani TRAPATT diode trapdoor trapdoor fault trapdoor monitor trapeze trapeze hanger Trapeze, Flying trapeziform Trapezitae Trapezium trapezium distortion Trapeznaia Trapeznikov, Sergei Trapeznikov, Sergei Pavlovich			Tranxene-SD Tranxene-SD Half Strength Tranxene-T Tranxilium tranylcypromine tranylcypromine Tranylcypromine sulfate Tranylcypromine sulfate Tranzum Courier Service TRAO TRAOD trap trap trap trap trap trap Trap (plumbing) Trap (plumbing) trap address Trap and skeet Trap and skeet Trap Bands trap block Trap Data Dissemination Service TRAP Data Distribution System Trap Ditches trap door trap door trap door Trap Doors trap elevator Trap Flag trap gun trap house Trap House (album) trap in trap into Trap jaw trap line trap mine Trap Next Program Counter trap play Trap point Trap points Trap Pond State Park Trap rock trap seal TRAP sequence trap shooter trap shooters Trap shooting Trap shooting Trap stairs Trap tree Trap Trees

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