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A sex toy, often resembling a fishhook, used for anal penetration.
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Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
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Any of the hooks on the barbules of a feather that interlock adjacent barbs
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Alternative form of beartrap [(hunting) A large trap used to catch a bear or other mammal, usually as a foot trap.]
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(hunting) A large trap used to catch a bear or other mammal, usually as a foot trap.
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A kind of bell-shaped stench trap.
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A trap designed or used to catch wild birds.
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A baited trap used to catch insects, made from a plastic bottle.
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(felinology) A device designed to trap a feral cat, often employed in the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program.
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(slang, obsolete) A live-trap (trap designed to catch animals without killing them).
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Someone or something that catches.
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A cask split in two and ceremonially burned as part of an ancient Scottish custom still observed at Burghead, a fishing village on the Moray Firth.
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A fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law.
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Alternative form of cod end [The narrow end of a trawling net]
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(Scotland) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon.
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Alternative form of cruive [(Scotland) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon.]
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(UK dialectal, Scotland) A shoal of fish; a catch.
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(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
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(robotics) a gripper designed to act similarly to how a fish fin wraps around an object that pushes into it
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(obsolete) The fitchew, or polecat.
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(transitive) To feather, as an arrow.
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A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows.
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(UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
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To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
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A snare or trap for game.
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(obsolete) A pool of water to keep fish in; a weir.
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A cylindrical trap, with a sticky interior, used to trap gravid mosquitos.
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(fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
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A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
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A harpooner, one who uses a harpoon to hunt whales.
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A person who uses a harpoon, especially to hunt whales
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To lay snares for rabbits.
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Synonym of specksioneer (“chief harpooner”)
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(idiomatic) An awkward situation.
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Alternative form of landskip
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A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
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(attributive) Describing a kind of trap that catches an animal by the leg.
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To catch live animals with traps.
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Alternative spelling of live-trap [To catch live animals with traps.]
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A type of polearm used in 18th century Europe that consists of a long pole and a two-pronged circular head for snaring the enemy around the neck.
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Alternative form of mantrap [A mechanical device for catching trespassers.]
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Alternative form of man catcher [A type of polearm used in 18th century Europe that consists of a long pole and a two-pronged circular head for snaring the enemy around the neck.]
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(law) Poaching by means of a mechanical trap or snare.
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A trap designed to catch moles (the animals).
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(literally) A cage containing a banana with a hole large enough for a monkey's hand to fit in, but not large enough for a monkey's fist (clutching a banana) to come out; anecdotally used to catch monkeys that lack the intellect to let go of the banana and run away.
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(countable) A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
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Alternative spelling of nabby [(Scotland) A skiff used for fishing.]
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(transitive, intransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
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Alternative form of rattrap [A device (trap) used to catch rats.]
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That shuts forcibly or holds tight, like a rat trap.
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Alternative form of RATO [A takeoff assisted by such a unit.]
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A device (trap) used to catch rats.
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Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangling.
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(chiefly derogatory) A lower-class person living on or along a river.
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(construction, plumbing) Synonym of stench trap
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Alternative form of skeo [A fisherman's hut in Orkney.]
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(construction, plumbing) Synonym of stench trap
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(intransitive) To fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their dens.
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(idiomatic) A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.
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Alternative form of spontoon [A pointed weapon similar to a pike.]
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Obsolete spelling of spaniel [Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.]
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A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
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Alternative form of specksioneer [A chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber, of the whale.]
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Alternative form of specksioneer [A chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber, of the whale.]
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Alternative form of speldring [(Scotland) A split dried haddock or other small fish.]
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(Scotland) A split dried haddock or other small fish.
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(Scotland) Alternative form of speldring [(Scotland) A split dried haddock or other small fish.]
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(rare) a trap to catch animals, using a spring mechanism.
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(construction, plumbing) A device to prevent foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc., by means of a water seal.
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(construction, plumbing) Synonym of stench trap
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(informal) A member of a Maryland Terrapins sports team.
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A series or line of traps.
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An instance of ensnaring something or someone.
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A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.
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A trap (typically for animals) equipped with a video camera
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One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
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A dock in which the carcasses of hunted whales are processed, and where whale hunters sometimes live.
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(transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
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(medicine, archaic) The patella, rotula, or kneecap.
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Alternative form of worm pick [A delicate device used to handle nematodes and similar organisms, typically under a microscope]
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