It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders.
A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
I'm going up that ladder there and through the trapdoor on to the roof.
The trapdoor appeared to be the only means of access to the roof, and between this roof and that of the next building there was a broad gulf.
Lee carried their belongings up this second flight, and wedged the trapdoordown between them and that creeping flood below.
He hurried along the corridor to a trapdoor section where Bartlot and a number of his officers and men were grouped about a great flat metal plate that was connected to a windlass by hawsers passing over two sets of pulleys.
In addition, there were several thousand copies of red propaganda circulars and pamphlets, a neat little engraving and printing plant and a second trapdoor that opened into the old sewer.
Then instantly he remembered the men had spoken in a foreign tongue, that they had carried a mysterious object to the trapdoor in the sewer, and that they had taken the same or a duplicate object from the sewer.
Finally the trapdoor having given way, a whirlwind of fire shot up into the loft, pierced the straw roof, rose to the sky like the immense flame of a torch, and all the cottage flared.
As soon as they closed the trapdoor the old woman removed the ladder, then opened the outside door noiselessly and went back to look for more bundles of straw, with which she filled her kitchen.
Slowly and with infinite care Rathburn raised the trapdoor an inch or two and listened intently.
Rathburn pulled the rug against the trapdooras he followed, then let down the door, certain that the rug would fall into place.
He raised the trapdoorslowly until it tipped back on the floor leaving the opening into the cellar clear.
She raised her head, and beheld a ray of reddish light passing through the crevices in the sort of trapdoor contrived in the roof of the inpace.
The trapdoor was coated with sand to make it appear only a half-buried rock, and in the near distance were other, closely similar outcroppings that were very likely the entrances to other spiders' burrows.
From overhead came a creaking, and a band of light appeared and widened, grew dazzling as a circular trapdoor opened on daylight.
The bale of hay sort of slides down on the trapdoor when you pull it down," he thought.
A long trapdoorwas revealed, and with trembling fingers he raised it, looking down into a deep well of darkness.
He had just reached the trapdoor at the top of the long climb, when a muffled ripping crash echoed up dimly from far beneath him.
The trapdoor behind him was being shaken violently.
They live in holes bored in the ground, and provided with a trapdoor contrivance which is closed when the insect is at home.
The trapdoor spider resembles the tarantula, by which name it is usually known in Cuba and Jamaica, but is somewhat smaller and commoner.
Trapdoor spiders are among the commonest of these pests.
Neither the stings of the trapdoor spider nor true tarantula are usually dangerous although the wounds caused by the bites may heal slowly.
As the old witch leaped heavily upon the ground, the trapdoor closed behind her.
Upon this the shadowy arms enveloped Alizon, the trapdoor flew open, and the figure disappeared with its inanimate burthen.
And as he spoke, a trapdoor was opened by one of the robbers, disclosing a flight of steps leading to the subterranean chambers, down which the miserable lady was dragged.
She was roused at length by a creaking sound not far from her, and found it proceeded from a trapdoor rising slowly on its hinges.
You know in most books when two folks run across a deserted farm-house there's always a trapdoor or a ghost or something.
The next moment it was gone, and the trapdoor was slammed to with an ominous crash.
Fifteen or twenty minutes after, the trapdoor gave way, and other voices now mingled with Weber's and Mazeroux's.
Come back by Florence Levasseur's room and the secret passage to the ladder which leads to the trapdoor at the top.
Unless he ran away as we came--look, through the trapdoor at the top of this ladder.
Weber replied: "Considering the slope by which we've come, it's certain that the trapdoor is on a level with the second floor.
Listening a moment she cautiously lowered the trapdoor in the floor and closed the opening, fastening it with its bolt.
Gaining the trapdoor just as it was pinioned from beneath, Kirby had torn at it with bare hands.
Behind Naida, directly in the path in which her slavering aggressors were slowly forcing her, a huge stone slab in the temple floor had begun to tilt up as if it were a trapdoor raised by an invisible hand.
In a second, the ponderous trapdoor crashed into place, and she was gone.
It had happened this way for years: They'd try to open the trapdoor for an hour or two, then give it up and turn their attention to something else.
Deciding that the others might miss him, he retraced his steps, located the trapdoor in the ceiling, pushed it open and ascended.
The next moment the Countess's chamber opened, and instantly the trapdoorgave way.
It was supported by iron bolts; but it was so arranged that even if the bolts were drawn, the trapdoor would still be held in its place by springs.
He climbed the ladder, pushed his way through the trapdoor opening, and breathed deeply of the night air.
Surest thing you know--if the trapdoor ain't latched.
The kegs and tobacco were speedily carried down into a large cellar, the trapdoor was closed, and the boards placed securely in position and fastened by six long screws.
But as she passed by the trapdoor and hurriedly retwisted her hair before descending, she heard him there, beyond the parapet, laughing still.
On the landing outside a short ladder led up to a trapdoor in the eaves, and through the open trapway a broad ray of moonlight streamed upon the staircase.
But, if we go in by the upper way, and enter the magazine itself, I can make the fakir show us how to lift the stone trapdoor I spoke of--the one that I closed when I hid the women.
Above them, where a ten-ton stone trapdoor lay closed over their heads, black powder stood in heaps and sacks and barrels.
She swore to me that she had recognized his voice when the trapdooropened up above her.
There was not a door nor crack, nor any sign of one, except that a wooden ladder in one corner led to a trapdoor overhead, and they had certainly not entered by the ladder.
And I recognized your voice the minute that the trapdoor opened and I heard it!
Working aft with careful steps, Stirling reached his trapdoor and listened.
The trapdoor he had cut was held by only a few splinters.
It came to her with force that he was no longer the aged, shaggy bear who had crawled up the trapdoor in the deck of the cabin.
In the illustration, the den and its trapdoor is shown, and in Figure 178 a sectional view of the same is seen; but the door is never found open, the spring or hinge being so devised as to remain closed.
In the island of Timos there is a trapdoor spider which does not hunt, but combines the methods of other spiders.
The spiders which build webs, from plain geometrical traps to conelike affairs, are interesting; but the trapdoor spiders and those which dig burrows are among the wonderful artisans and engineers of the insect world.
Tarantulas (Mygale) and the opening of a trapdoorden of another spider (Cteniza).
When this trapdoor is not closed, and food "goes down the wrong way," we choke, and the food is expelled by coughing.
When food is in the course of being swallowed, the upper part of this tube forms a trapdoor over the opening.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trapdoor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
