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Be sure to cover chain of trap good, and have everything look as natural when you leave us when you came to set trap.

From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

The appearance of the set trap before the grass or moss is arranged is as represented in Fig.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

He had left Natalie alone on the cliff, and then blindly permitted this chit to lead him straight into Hobart's set trap.

From The Case and the Girl by Randall Parrish

It appeared to have escaped from a deliberately set trap.

From Operation Terror by Murray Leinster

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