DCHP-1 Online
box-trap 
n. a trap consisting of a box with a baited trigger, so constructed that when it is disturbed the box falls and catches the victim.
- 1779 (1911) I made a box-trap for martens, and set it on the opposite side of the river.
- 1956 The whole affair was really only a large box trap set so that the boys could trip it from the cabin and catch the dogs in the outer porch.
- 1779 (1911) I made a box-trap for martens, and set it on the opposite side of the river.