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tossing-pole Fur Trade 
n. a kind of trap in which a pole is fixed on a fulcrum, a weight being placed on one end and on the other a snare by which a trapped animal is hoisted into the air.
See also: spring-pole
- 1907 Instead of the [lynx] snare being tied to a tossing pole, it is simply tied to a stout birch stick, 3 or 4 feet long, by about 2 inches in diameter.
- 1921 It had not been disturbed, but a little farther on we saw the form of a dead lynx hanging from a tossing-pole above the trail.
- 1923 (1924) ". . . This lynx I knocked over when he was trying to get a rabbit still kicking on one of my tossing-poles. . . . "
- 1907 Instead of the [lynx] snare being tied to a tossing pole, it is simply tied to a stout birch stick, 3 or 4 feet long, by about 2 inches in diameter.