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单词 gin trap
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gin trap
gin trap n. a mechanical trap with (frequently serrated) spring-operated jaws designed to catch an animal or human by the leg.
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1819 Champion & Sunday Rev. 24 Jan. 49/1 When the thunder roars, he believes it to be the squeaking of a mouse in a gin-trap.
1833 J. Newborn Monthly Visitor 50 By it I do depart from evil here, And shun the tempter's gin-trap, net and snare.
1970 in D. Tangye Cornish Summer i. 9 We once helped to nurse a badger back to health after it had been caught in a gin trap.
2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields iv. 152 Gin traps (outlawed in 1958 but still used illegally throughout the rest of the century) and other Rabbit traps were a known cause for the deaths of many Choughs.
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