| 单词 | well trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswell trap well trap n. (a) a box sunk in the ground as a trap for catching rabbits (now rare); †(b) a depression in a drain, in which water lies and prevents the escape of foul air; = stench-trap n. at stench n. Compounds 2 (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > pit trap pitOE pitfalla1387 trapfall1596 trap-pit1652 trap-ditch1657 pit trap1751 well trap1819 downfall1856 hopo1866 piskun1892 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > trap > types of well trap1819 bell-trap1867 ball trap1873 siphon trapa1884 pot trap1884 1819 Evans & Ruffy's Farmers Jrnl. 22 Feb. 57/1 There is a plan to take them with nets, and another to sink well-traps. 1842 Encycl. Brit. V. 670/2 It is from the drying up of water in these well-traps (vulgarly called stink-traps) that uninhabited houses are so frequently offensive. 1874 Notts. Guardian 4 Sept. 2/2 I found the sink pipes in the kitchens going into the drains and only protected by well traps. 1893 J. Watson Confess. Poacher 133 The well-trap is a square, deep box, built into the ground opposite to a smoot-hole in the fence through which the rabbits run. As the rabbits run, the floor opens, and they drop into the well. 1896 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 4 Jan. (Suppl.) 4/5 Of the methods of obtaining them—field-netting, well traps, shooting—all are as nothing compared with silent ferreting. 1955 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 58 401 The screen keeps the captured creatures from going out through these drainage holes or well traps and also concentrates in these two and one half inch pipes the smaller organisms caught. < as lemmas |
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