1824 G. F. Lyon viii. 340 In the summer they are but rarely taken, and it is then by means of a trap of stones, formed like the ice-trap, with a falling door.
1949 Jan. 18/2 They could easily have stumbled blindly into one of the ice traps.
2005 (Nexis) 2 Mar. A killer whale with three cubs saved herself after spending two days in the ice trap near Iturup.