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Answer for the clue "Trespasser's hazard ", 7 letters:
mantrap

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A mantrap is a mechanical physical security devices for catching poachers and trespassers. They have taken many forms, the most usual being like a large foothold trap , the steel springs being armed with teeth which met in the victim's leg. Since 1827, ...

Usage examples of mantrap.

Rows of yuccas were like green mantraps waiting to clash their sword-arms shut.

A glass wall and a mantrap separated the semicircular vault room from the rest of Beverly Hills Safe &amp.

For a week preceding their dawn-to-dusk occupancy, the defending side was permitted to swarm over the island, constructing a web of plywood barbicans and outworks, as well as varyingly symbolic entrenchments, deadfalls, and mantraps, all centering on a primitive fortress, little more than a stockade atop a mound of earth.

With the whisky-jack yelling at me to beware, I crept across this mantrap with exquisite care, the waters of the creek rushing two or three meters beneath me.