Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Frank Conibear, a Canadian who first constructed such a trap in 1957.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.