lobster pot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A slatted cage with an opening covered by a funnel-shaped net, used for trapping lobsters.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A pot or trap for lobsters. There are many patterns. The common house-pot is made of laths. The hand-pot is a circular iron hoop, as large as a hogshead-hoop, having under it a net and over it wooden bows, with bait hung in the middle. It has often taken six or eight lobsters at once.

Wiktionary

1. n. A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. a device used to trap lobsters, consisting of a semi-cylindrical structure made of wooden slats, with openings formed of funnel-shaped nets allowing lobsters to enter, but impeding their exit. It is also called a lobster trap.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. trap for catching lobsters