set trap

Example Sentences

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This was precisely what Kah-go-mish had hoped they would do, and right before them lay the other part of his cunningly set trap.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

It appeared to have escaped from a deliberately set trap.

From Operation Terror by Leinster, Murray

Be sure to cover chain of trap good, and have everything look as natural when you leave us when you came to set trap.

From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

The appearance of the set trap before the grass or moss is arranged is as represented in Fig.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

Line with fine sprigs of hemlock, and set trap evenly and firmly.

From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)