| 单词 | house trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse trap house trap n. (a) Plumbing a trap (trap n.1 8a) fitted where the soil pipe issues from a building in order to prevent sewer gas entering the domestic plumbing system (now chiefly historical); (b) originally U.S. a large aviary-like trap of mesh or wire netting, in which bait is laid to catch live birds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > net plover net1404 tunnelc1440 setter1526 trammel1530 bird net1533 day net1576 road net1581 sparrow-net1621 shaw-net1648 trammel-net1648 spreadnet1661 pocket-hay1704 bramble-net1706 clap-net1708 tunnel-net1721 funnel-net1774 bow-net1875 flight net1889 house trap1903 pouting-net1905 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 311/2 Self-acting valves for sewer and house-traps. 1903 New Eng. Mag. Nov. 324 A house-trap, of generous size, baited with grain, has proved an efficient and merciful reducer of the sparrow. 1918 S. E. Dibble Elem. of Plumbing xi. 104 When a house trap is being set, it is necessary to set it perfectly level, otherwise the seal of the trap is weakened and sewer gases can enter. 1960 E. Ennion House on Shore iv. 37 House traps of one kind or another, aviaries to all appearances, are to be found in many enthusiastic ringers' gardens. 1993 T. S. Baskett et al. Ecol. & Managem. Mourning Dove 385/2 Other upland bird species were targeted for study as well, and the house traps served investigators well for all these species. 2004 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 11 July d2 Nowadays, every fixture has its own P-trap, so a house trap is no longer needed. < as lemmas |
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