Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance formerly used in firing military mines, consisting of a rectangular box placed vertically in communication with the mine.
- noun A trap in the form of a box, used for capturing small animals.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word box-trap.
Examples
-
Jury and Fiona marveled at the pure idiocy of the sardine box-trap.
-
The tiger is killed usually by capturing him in a sort of box-trap, and then the trap is taken to the nearest stream, where it is submerged and the animal drowned, to avoid injury to the skin, which brings a good price.
-
He brought out of a corner of the attic an old box-trap he had used in the summer to catch birds and small animals, set it carefully on the snow, and scattered crumbs of corn-bread to attract the birds.
-
It was a box-trap, with a drop at the end, too great for any beast, a narrow slide of weathered stone running down, and the rim wall trail.
-
So they made a ketchalive, or box-trap, two feet long, using hay wire to make a strong netting at one end.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
-
Stale meat-offal and other infallible lures were put out till Pussy, urged by the reestablished hunger-pinch, crept up to a large fish-head in a box-trap; the negro, in watching, pulled the string that dropped the lid, and, a minute later, the Analostan was once more among the prisoners in the cellar.
-
The animal having been caught in a box-trap, and not maimed or crippled in any way, was first muzzled, and then let loose for a race for its life over the prairies, with hounds and hunters in full pursuit.
-
Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap?
-
Cannot a man work in wood without knowing all about endogens and exogens, or must he attend Professor Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap?
-
It is said the Chinese catch the tiger in a box-trap, which they bait simply with a looking-glass.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.