deadfall

He has broken away from several steel traps, and he always takes the bait of a deadfall without harm to himself.

After three or four days, I again went to the deadfall, wondering and imagining all kinds of things.

With some hard work and heavy lifting I got another good deadfall built that day.

The carcass of the bear was, of course, a complete loss, and that is a serious objection to the deadfall as a bear trap.

When the mink will not take bait readily, then of course the deadfall does not make a successful mink trap.