Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A trap for large animals in which a heavy weight is arranged to fall on and kill or disable the prey.
- n. A mass of fallen timber and tangled brush.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A trap in which a weight is arranged to fall upon and crush the prey, used for large game. It is commonly formed of two heavy logs, one lying on the ground, and the other rising in a sloping direction, and upheld in this position by a contrivance of insecure props. The game, in order to get at the bait, has to pass under the sloping log, and in doing so is compelled to knock away the props, when the raised log falls and secures it.
- n. A smaller trap for rats, etc., in which the fall is a loaded board.
- n. A tangled mass of fallen trees and underbrush.
- n. A low drinking- or gaming-place.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From dead + fall. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But in heavy snow, when deadfall is buried and wet, a fire can be hard to spark and difficult to maintain.”
“But what made folks really nuts was when I didn't do this for the eider duck fall, and people complained of various things -- that the pacing was off, that they didn't like the duck, that the deadfall was a trap.”
“The deadfall was a big one, maybe two feet in diameter.”
“The deadfall was an obvious place to hide and it would be the first place Fletcher would investigate.”
“And I hope you get caught in some kind of deadfall and have to come screaming to the cops.”
“Another "deadfall" for taking capercailzie in Norway is described by”
“Moll Gurney's "deadfall," while respectability took it with sugar at Mr. Jo.”
“It's often said the toughest part about having a child is the day he's resurrected as a foul-smelling demon because you buried him beyond the "deadfall" in an ancient ground and he murders your buddy, kills and partially eats your wife, and then comes at you with a scalpel before you inject him with a lethal dose of morphine.”
“Nodding wearily, Logan strode to the woods and gathered deadfall.”
“Old fires and tornados left patches of deadfall covered with brush, vines, and saplings that had to be crossed or skirted.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deadfall’.
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It's a trap
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Fall
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Various Traps
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Things that fall
words that end in fall
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
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Potpourri II
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