birdlime

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But Professor Lloyd breaks down their "trapping mechanisms" into six categories �pitfalls, lobster pots, snares, flypaper or birdlime traps, steel traps and mousetraps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tables, people, pipes and wine bottles were all reduced to barely decipherable fragments, each seen from a different angle and painted in various shades of birdlime and mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without the peregrine falcons to keep them in check, they were so numerous that the courthouse windows and ledges were white with birdlime.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The baboons learned about the birdlime, too, and all she found now were a few forlorn feathers.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer