A contraption made of wires, rods, fishing-net or other suitable materials with the purpose of catching fish alive.(noun)
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Use "fish-trap" in a sentence
"When we grumbled Big-Fat arose, and with the voice of God said that God had chosen the wise men to own the land and the goats and the fish-trap, and the fire-brew, and that without these wise men we would all be animals, as in the days when we lived in trees."
"If the man who first found the virtue and use of fire had used his strength we would have been his slaves, as we are the slaves to-day of Little-Belly, who found the virtue and use of the fish-trap; and of the men who found the virtue and use of the land, and the goats, and the fire-brew."
"I worked on the fish-trap, getting a string of money every five days."