Gravity-operated trap

Usage examples of deadfall.

He glanced down the beach, where Sitka was heading into the deadfall, and bellowed for him to come back.

Through the trees bordering the deadfall I spotted the blue roof of Lani House, and then the aquamarine shimmer of a lighted swimming pool.

Great hissing clouds of steam rose from the deadfall, but the fires still burned.

Steam still rose from the deadfall, but the flames were no longer visible.

Pete needs on top of Celia dying, the deadfall burning, and Jill cracking up.

I went into the deadfall in spite of his insistence that Jillian would never hide there.

In order, however, to better his chances of catching the mink, the hunter may build a deadfall near the trap, where the animal is in the habit of entering the bush.

Though the steel trap is much in vogue among white men and half-breeds, the deadfall, even to this day, is much preferred by the Indian.

Crews were already clearing away the deadfall but trees had come down by the hundreds.

Stantori and Lester Treadwell, a lean, wiry man in his fifties who was in charge of clearing the deadfall, had taken a four-wheel drive truck up the logging road toward spike camp as soon as it had gotten light.

As Nicholas started to pick out a deadfall, a hand touched him upon the shoulder.

Nearby, Krai built a fire of deadfall wood to prepare their midday meal.

The robot cuts deadfall from its path with little effort and little thought.

He steps lightly along the deadfall on the forest floor and comes to stand beside the mu.

They were standing not more than a few feet away, hacking at the deadfall, cutting through the thorns.