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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance for catching lobsters and crawfish, made of two round wicker baskets, pointed at the end, one of which is thrust into the other, and having at the mouth a little rim bent inward to oppose the return of the fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
- A net for catching birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trap forlobsters , consisting of awickerwork cylinder with afunnel -shapedentrance at one end. - noun A
net for catchingbirds .
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