birdtrap

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noun

A trap designed or used to catch wild birds.

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Meanings

nounbirdtrap (plural birdtraps)

plural birdtraps

  1. A trap designed or used to catch wild birds.

    He talked about hunting and shooting, and told me how unfair it was that Ole Gjortler, who really belonged to Gjerdrum parish, should set his bird-traps on Solberg Common[.]

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26

Origin

From bird + trap.

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birdtrap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/birdtrap

MLA

“birdtrap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/birdtrap. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “birdtrap,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/birdtrap.

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