set trap

Example Sentences

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It appeared to have escaped from a deliberately set trap.

From Operation Terror by Leinster, Murray

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 Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

A well set trap will not reveal itself to the game or to any other trapper.

From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

This was precisely what Kah-go-mish had hoped they would do, and right before them lay the other part of his cunningly set trap.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

Andy put one drop on his set trap and, rolling up his canvas as he did so, walked backwards.

From Swamp Cat by Kjelgaard, James Arthur