beaver trap

Riverside fur device

A beaver trap is a device for catching beavers, typically a leghold or body-gripping trap set near dams or lodges.

The term also appears as crude slang for anything that attracts women, playing on the vulgar sense of beaver as female genitalia: That sports car is a real beaver trap.

Related
  • snareDevice for catching prey
  • leg holdGrasp on lower appendage
  • furAnimal body hair
  • peltFur-bearing animal skin
  • steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy

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Opposites
capture vs. release mechanisms

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Device that unlocks restraint

fishing net · hunting rifle

target species

beaver trapfishing net

Mesh device for catching

bear trap · rabbit snare · lobster pot · fish trap · crab trap

trapping vs. non-trapping wildlife methods

beaver traphabitat modification

Changing where species live

Family

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Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG