Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
live-box , 2.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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Unknowingly, zoos were supporting dealers who created a market for farmers to live-trap cheetahs.
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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
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The next morning there was a rabbit in the live-trap.
Cat and Mouse Ralph Williams
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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
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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
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In some countries they are reluctant to provide researchers with permits to live-trap, immobilize, and radio collar endangered species like the snow leopard.
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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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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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