In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ENSNARE
trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel
(verb) catch in or as if in a trap; “The men trap foxes”
ensnare, entrap, frame, set up
(verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap; “I was set up!”; “The innocent man was framed by the police”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
ensnare (third-person singular simple present ensnares, present participle ensnaring, simple past and past participle ensnared)
To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
To entangle; to enmesh.
Anagrams
• rennase
Source: Wiktionary
En*snare", v. t.
Definition: To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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