DCHP-3

cat-killer

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a kind of deadfall trap.

Quotations

1819
The cat-killer has one end turning upon a nail driven into a long stake, whilst the other is supported high up by a line which passes over a crutch on the top of a stake, and then comes down to another at the bottom, where one end of the tongue is fixed.