box-trap

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trap consisting of a box with a baited trigger, so constructed that when it is disturbed the box falls and catches the victim.

Quotations

1779

I made a box-trap for martens, and set it on the opposite side of the river.

1956

The whole affair was really only a large box trap set so that the boys could trip it from the cabin and catch the dogs in the outer porch.