deadfall

deadfall
noun /ˈdɛdfɔːl,ˈdɛdfɑl/
a) A kind of trap for large animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey.

They had lived down in horse barns, army “A” tents with the old blood-stains onto them, city hotels with canopy beds, woke up in back rooms of deadfalls where the bars had toothmarks end to end.

Syn: deadfall trap, dive

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