set trap

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Another way, drive a stake beside a log, set trap about six to nine inches away, pour fish brine on stake and see what it will do.

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)

Could the leaving of the craft in fit condition for our use be part of some carefully conceived plan; a bait to draw us into some set trap?

From The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War by Parrish, Randall

It appeared to have escaped from a deliberately set trap.

From Operation Terror by Leinster, Murray

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

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)