fox n
   2 Comb ~ set: baited snare to capture fox, ~ slip: see SLIP² n 1, ~ snare: FOX SLIP, ~ trap.
   1986 SAUNDERS 149 So a piece of meat or fish in a lynx house or a fox set smelled pretty good to a dog. ibid 144 I can hear him now--'Tail a fox slip in that lead there.' 1984 POWELL 62 I took a fox snare and wired it up in a tree. 1832 MOSS MS Diary 7 Mar Mr Simon set 2 fox traps off on the Gull Island. 1984 POWELL 38 The next day I was supposed to go out the bay ten miles and pick up some fox traps that we had out there. 1987 POOLE 25 In the meantime my brother Fred and I set out our fox traps, thinking that if by chance we would get a fox that would help to buy food.

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