house trap
noun
1 Plumbing a trap fitted where the soil pipe issues from a building in order to prevent sewer gas entering the domestic plumbing system (now chiefly historical ).
2Originally US a large aviary-like trap of mesh or wire netting, in which bait is laid to catch live birds.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Catalogue of the Great Exhibition.
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