eel-pot

It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shutters; so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houton, from the mystery of an eel-pot.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1917

He thrust into Amber's hand an end of rotten painter at which the rowboat strained, and wandered off into the night, in the course of time returning with an old eel-pot stake, flotsam of some summer storm.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Quain, lodging an end of the eel-pot stake on the hard sand bottom, put his weight upon it.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Had the closet been designed for an eel-pot it would have proved the most complete success, for getting into it was a very simple matter, whereas, getting _out_ required considerable ingenuity.

Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life 1897

I have a small ink-bottle of glass, made like an eel-pot (such as tax - gatherers use), tied to my buttonhole, and with this I can scribble away in almost any sea.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

The jambins are a kind of elongated eel-pot in which they catch more, especially lobsters and red garnet.

The Fête At Coqueville 1907 ��mile Zola 1871

Now he has landed; now he drags the boat up as if she were an eel-pot.

Absalom's Hair Bj��rnstjerne Bj��rnson 1871

The anterior extremity, which is defended by an arrangement of fine twigs, converging, and free at the converging ends, forming a device not unlike an eel-pot, which presents access to the chrysalis while allowing the butterfly to emerge without breaking the defence, indicated a relative of the great nocturnal butterfly; the silk-work denoted a spinning caterpillar.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The burly brown cocoon, which is notable for its curious tunnel of exit, like an eel-pot, is always found at the base of an old almond-tree, adhering to the bark.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

In fishing, the natives use the arabine or eel-pot of platted grass, from nine to twelve feet in length.

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02 Edward John Eyre 1858