deadfall in English
noun
1
a trap consisting of a heavy weight positioned to fall on an animal.
They also utilized two kinds of traps, the deadfall and the twitch-up snare.
2
a tangled mass of fallen trees and brush.
The next hour was spent gathering up all the brush and deadfall we could find.
Use "deadfall" in a sentence
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1. If that supporting branch were cut away... this fallen tree would make a perfect Malay deadfall.