birdtrap

noun

birdtrap

noun

Etymology From bird + trap.

1

A trap designed or used to catch wild birds.

  • He talked about hunting and shooting, and told me how unfair it was that Ole Gjortler, who really belonged to Gjerdrum parish, should set his bird-traps on Solberg Common[.]1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26:

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