Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as live-box, 2.

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Examples

  • So - I have the live-trap baited and set, and since my TNIR (Trap, Neuter, Inoculate and Return) buddy can't do any relocation past 9: 00 PM tonight because she has to work in the morning, that means the stinker (s) won't be out of their burrow under the bedroom until 9: 05 or so.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Skunks, Cats, Murphy, and Where Was That Scotch, Anyway? 2009

  • Unknowingly, zoos were supporting dealers who created a market for farmers to live-trap cheetahs.

    The Cheetah's Race for Survival 2000

  • They'd live-trap or sleep-gas Fuzzies; they'd put them in cages, and torment them with maze and electric-shock experiments, and kill a few for dissection, or maybe not bother killing them first.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • The next morning there was a rabbit in the live-trap.

    Cat and Mouse Ralph Williams

  • They'd live-trap or sleep-gas Fuzzies; they'd put them in cages, and torment them with maze and electric-shock experiments, and kill a few for dissection, or maybe not bother killing them first.

    Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Move the Iowa pig farms to the greater Phoenix metropolitan area (Scottsdale would be a supremely ironic and appropriate destination); live-trap every beaver in North Carolina and air-drop them all on the Oak Creek drainage immediately adjacent to McCain's "cabin" in Sedona, Arizona; live-capture every

    The Grumpy Forester 2009

  • In some countries they are reluctant to provide researchers with permits to live-trap, immobilize, and radio collar endangered species like the snow leopard.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • They knew we’d try to live-trap them, spay or neuter them, and place them through our network of approximately 100 volunteers.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • They knew we’d try to live-trap them, spay or neuter them, and place them through our network of approximately 100 volunteers.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

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