1742 London Evening-post 16–18 Dec. (advt.) In the Spring Fall will be sold, A large Quantity of Bark.

1793 London Evening-Post 9 Nov. (advt.) To be Sold, Seventy-Four Oak, 301 Elm, and three Ash Tree... They are to be sold standing, and time will be allowed for a spring-fall for the Oak, if required.

1823 Morning Post 16 Aug. A promise to pay the remainder upon the spring fall of his Lordship's timber.

1906 Estates Gaz. (2006) 13 May 208/3 It is the custom to have a spring fall of oak.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 58 Pointers or setters which are broken to run in when ordered, may do in open spring-falls,..but they are too large for thick covert.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. ii. 27 He would have Woodstock a trap..you the spring-fall which should bar their escape.

1890 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 5 Mar. 4/2 I do not believe that the gallows is a stepping-stone to heaven, but a springfall to hell.

1930 H. Williamson Dandelion Days (rev. ed.) vii. 82 Jack and I saw several gins there, beside three beautifully constructed traps for pheasants, made out of hazel sticks to form a kind of spring-fall coop.