trap in

verb

trap in

verb

1

Of a pigeon, to enter the loft after returning from a race or training flight.

When Corker trapped in Monte put her ring in the hatch of the pigeon clock[.]1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 120:

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