Arcade defeated him with a giant hammer-like trap and possibly killing him.
What if it is a giant German trap, or double bluff, after all?
What if it's all a giant trap?
He thinks that his cousin may be out to get him and the castle may be a giant trap.
The whole growth might have been intelligently planted to form a giant trap or barrier.
It told her too that Folcroft was one giant trap waiting to spring shut.
He still thought this was some giant trap.
The fortress was in its latest and probably last incarnation as a giant trap, a treasure house with counterfeit bullion.
No matter what its use, however, the room seems like a giant abstract leg-hold trap from which the only escape is self-mutilation or death.
For one thing, they are tempted by food and shelter at Harfang, and thus walk right into a giant trap!