DCHP-3

watching waiter

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of two series of converging objects, such as posts, piles of turf, large upright stones, forming a funnel into which big game, such as buffalo, were driven into a pound for slaughter.

See: deadman(def. 1)

Quotations

1896
From the ends of the fence bundles of willows were placed on end at regular intervals for a mile or more, their outside terminals being fully a mile apart. These were called "watching waiters."