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Definition of "fish-trap" [fish-trap]

  • 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."