Moshe Tabor likewise worked alone throughout the days that followed. He punched out a number of sets of fake license plates for the capture cars and rigged a system to change them in seconds. These included a set of diplomatic plates. He also tinkered with a contraption to turn the backseat of the car into a trapdoor, which would allow them to hide Eichmann in the narrow space between the trunk and the seat if necessary.

What do punch out, capture car, rig a system, tinker with, contraption and trapdoor mean in this context?

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Moshe Tabor likewise worked alone throughout the days that followed. He punched out a number of sets of fake license plates for the capture cars and rigged a system to change them in seconds. These included a set of diplomatic plates. He also tinkered with a contraption to turn the backseat of the car into a trapdoor, which would allow them to hide Eichmann in the narrow space between the trunk and the seat if necessary.

What do punch out, capture car, rig a system, tinker with, contraption and trapdoor mean in this context?

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engraving is to remove some material in a pattern.
So if a make a picture from a piece of wood, by carving some shape in the front.
Engraving is the process used to permanantly put names on the cases of electronic products. iphones have a service to engrave with your name before dispatch.
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In a licence plate, it is not engraved, but actually coined, stamped, punched, forced to change shape, rather than removed. So all the material remains, the shapes of the letters are held still while the background is just pushed backward when not wanted to be in the front, in relief.

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punched out probably means made with some sort of engraving machine----I guess capture car means a car they were going to use to capture or kidnap Eichmann------rig a system means to make a system, they needed some way to change license plates quickly-------tinker with means to work with or play with or  try to design------contraption is a device or an invention ------trapdoor is something that opens in the floor to hide someone or something

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