| 单词 | tipe-trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmastipe-trap A kind of trap for catching mice, rabbits, etc., in which a board balanced on a pivot is tipped or tilted by the weight of the animal passing over it. Also tipe-trap. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > trap for rabbit or hare hare-pipe1389 wire1749 tipe1788 turnpike1879 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 361 Tipe, a trap or device for catching rabbits... Also for taking mice, rats, or other vermin. The general principle is that of a balance [etc.]. 1799 Hull Advertiser 2 Feb. 3/3 [A] labourer..charged with entering the warren..and breaking open the lock of a type, and killing a rabbit therein. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tipe, a mouse trap, consisting of a board suspended over a vessel of water, and nicely balanced on a pivot. 1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 276 The usual methods adopted in catching rabbits are by fold-nets, spring-nets, and tipes, a species of trap, being a pit or cistern covered with a floor, with a small trap-door, nicely balanced near the centre, into which the rabbits pass by a narrow passage. < as lemmas |
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