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Lay system

Lay system, means a system in which a fishing vessel's catch is sold at auction, and then the proceeds are provided first to the provider of supplies and then

Man-trap

Man-trap, engines to catch trespassers, unlawful, unless set in a dwelling-house for defence between the Persons Act, 1861 (English) (24 & 25

Take

Take, has several meanings, such as 'seize, grasp, capture, catch, receive into the body, appropriate, secure, get, receive by payment, assume, choose, adopt, consume, obtain, derive from source

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Intercrop

To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate rows as to intercrop an orchard Also to use for catch crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of the regular rotation

Inviscate

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime to entangle with glutinous matter

Kiddle, Kidel, or Kedel

with a loop or narrow cut in it, accommodated for the laying of wheels or other engines to catch fish, 2 Inst. 38; and see, per Lord Selborne, C., Neill v. Duke of Devonshire, (1882) 8 App

Illaqueate

To insnare to entrap to entangle to catch

Cobweb

The network spread by a spider to catch its prey

Holdfast

Something used to secure and hold in place something else as a long flat headed nail a catch a hook a clinch a clamp etc hence a support

encroach

encroach [Anglo-French encrocher, probably alteration of acrocher to catch hold of, seize, usurp, from Old French, from a-, prefix stressing goal + croc hook] : to enter

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