birdlime

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"Birdlime," made out of the viscid sap of certain trees, is occasionally used to capture small birds.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

Birdlime is a device for which many plants furnish material,166 and which is available even against large game, which is fretted and worn out by it until it becomes the prey of man.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Birdlime is made from the inner bark of this tree, by beating it in a running stream and leaving it to ferment in a close vessel.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

He calls 'hunted fairly' a horse that has barely Been stripp'd for a trot within sight of the hounds, A horse that at Warwick beat Birdlime and Yorick, And gave Abdelkader at Aintree nine pounds.

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop