conibear (trap)

[after F. Conibear, a Canadian expert on trapping]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of trap that kills its victims instantly.

1965

Emile Paquette uses small traps most of the time, but he likes a newer device called the Conibear trap. . . .

1966

There is a more humane trap [than the leghole trap], known as the conibear, which kills large animals, such as beavers, instantly and humanely.