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moose-snare
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1903 quote.
Quotations
1807
[Their economy consists in hoarding up as many provisions as possible for the winter and in obtaining a great quantity of orignal snares.]
1903
They then followed a trail which led down the little Chaudiere, where Machecawa had a moose snare. He had driven two pegs into two large pine trees, about six feet from the ground, on opposite sides of the trail. On these he hung a cord about the size of a cod-line, formed of thirty-strands of the green skin of a moose and arranged as a noose, one end of which was securely attached to a fallen log, so that when the moose would come down hill for a drink he would run his head into it and the strip would slip off the pegs and tighten round his neck. . . .
1904
What he saw before him was a great, gaunt moose-cow reared upon her hind legs, caught under the jaws by a villainous moose-snare.