set trap

Example Sentences

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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 Matthews, Ike

Line with fine sprigs of hemlock, and set trap evenly and firmly.

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.

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 Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)

With his knife he then cuts a hole in the snow exactly the size of the set trap, the plate of which has already been daubed with mixed bait.

From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard