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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a large netted trap about 100 feet square, with a bottom, a door, and a leader to direct fish into the trap.
See: trap net
Quotations
1904
Long ago, when young Luke Dart, the Boot Bay trader, was ambitious for Shore patronage, he said to Solomon Stride . . . "Solomon, b'y, an you be willin', I'll trust you with twine for a cod-trap."
1907
In shape a cod-trap is very like a house, with a large door at which the fish can enter.
1944
Before the fishing season begins, the cod traps--which are boxlike nets--are dyed with bark and mended. . . .