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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cage of plastic-covered wire mesh or wooden slats with a funnel-shaped entrance, used for trapping lobsters.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pot or trap for lobsters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a device used to trap lobsters, consisting of a semi-cylindrical structure made of wooden slats, with openings formed of funnel-shaped nets allowing lobsters to enter, but impeding their exit. It is also called a lobster trap.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun trap for catching lobsters

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