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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of set (def. 1) that consists of a resilient sapling having a snare or trap attached to the top and being bent over so that when the trap is sprung, the caught animal is hoisted in the air.

See: set(def. 1),tossing-pole,twitch-up

Quotations

1924

The animals caught are almost always immediately choked to death by the action of the spring pole when the snare is pulled.

1956

[It is] more humane than a mink dangling from another trap on a spring pole.