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Definition of Deadfalls
1. deadfall [n] - See also: deadfall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadfalls
Literary usage of Deadfalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper: Experiences and Observations of E. N by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock (1913)
"A Few Words on deadfalls. COMRADES, as I have been asked to give my idea on the
... Now there are many kinds of deadfalls, the most of which have been shown ..."
2. Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing (1901)
"... RUN THEIR NOSES INTO deadfalls IT was very long ago, in the days of the ancients.
There stood a village in the canon south of Thunder Mountain where the ..."
3. My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges by James Willard Schultz (1907)
"Here we intended to remain for some time, and the hunters rode far and near on
both sides of the valley and out on the plains setting deadfalls for wolves. ..."
4. Trailmakers of the Northwest by Paul Leland Haworth (1921)
"He also selects the best places to set his traps, makes a few deadfalls, ...
He sets and baits his traps and deadfalls. In order to keep the traps from ..."
5. The Drama of the Forests, Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1921)
"In swampy places, or where there were creeks and small lakes, we examined traps
and deadfalls set for mink, muskrat, beaver, fisher, and otter. ..."
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