set trap
Example Sentences
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A hole set trap should not be approached unnecessarily.
From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
Be sure to search out all the old hollow logs near streams and set trap in or near entrance--place bait in log.
From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
Thus nothing was easier than to set trap after trap, into each of which the simple fellow fell as they were set—fell fatally.
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre
Now for four more nights you must bury a set trap under every heap of sawdust.
From Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience by Ike Matthews
It was a question whether Monkey had intentionally led him into a set trap, or his coming upon the balance of the crowd might be looked on as an accident.
From The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by George A. Warren
