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    and wolf were hunted since the Stone Age using trapping pits.[citation needed] Remains of trapping pits used for hunting elk, reindeer, wolves, and bears...
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    Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes,...
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  • dictionary. Pitfall may refer to: Hazard Trapping pit, a large pit dug to catch animals Pitfall trap, a small pit dug to catch amphibians, insects and reptiles...
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    respect for Rainsford's ingenuity as he leaves. Rainsford next digs a trapping pit and plants sharpened stakes at its bottom; one of Zaroff's dogs falls...
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  • gaming tables Trapping pit, pits used for hunting Pit (motor racing), an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted Trading pit, a part of a trading...
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    Across the top of the trapping pit was a thick stick or pole, and on this was fastened a plank, which covered the top of the trap. On one end of this plank...
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    Tar Pits. Petroleum migrated to the surface over time, trapping and preserving animals and plants for the past 50,000 years. The Carpinteria Tar Pits are...
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  • Punji stick (redirect from Punji pit)
    various types of traps; for example, a camouflaged pit into which a soldier might fall (it would then be a trou de loup). Sometimes a pit would be dug with...
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    centuries, the bones of trapped animals have been preserved. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens...
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    A pitfall trap is a trapping pit for small animals, such as insects, amphibians and reptiles. Pitfall traps are a sampling technique, mainly used for...
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  • different methods to his team: an overhead cage attached to a tree, a trapping pit, a large butterfly net, a false apple containing enough sugar to render...
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    against burglars. Other traps such as special snares, trap netting, trapping pits, fluidizing solid matter traps and cage traps could be used. Mantraps...
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    stakes used by beaters in hunting wolves in medieval Europe. Wolf hunting Trapping pit Towards a History of the Basque Language José Ignacio Hualde, Joseba...
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    Solar still (redirect from Pit still)
    at the bottom of a pit. Branches are placed vertically in the pit. The branches are long enough to extend over the edge of the pit and form a funnel to...
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    various trapping pits and well over 10,000 pits used for hunting have been located, which is much more than any other Scandinavian region. Trapping or hunting...
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    sharing some elements of Rashi's story, but with a lion caught in a trapping pit rather than a wolf in a well. However, Rashi may have actively "adapted...
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    moss flooded pit workings, trapping more than a hundred miners underground. For several days rescue teams worked non-stop to reach the trapped men. Most...
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    digs a 6.75 m (22 ft) trapping pit, although some local legends place the pit to the north in Morvah. After completing the pit the following morning,...
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  • This is a list of notable tar pits throughout the world. Tar pits, which are often covered with dust and leaves, can trap animals that step into them....
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    deaths of 204 men and children. The beam of the pit's pumping engine broke and fell down the shaft, trapping the men below. The disaster prompted a change...
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    Trou de loup (redirect from Tiger pit)
    referred to as a tiger pit in the East) was a type of booby trap or defensive obstacle. Each trou de loup consisted of a conical pit about 2 m (6 ft 7 in)...
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  • not kill, Rihito's team wins the game when they outwit Taketora into a trapping pit. In celebration, Rihito is named commander of his class. Meanwhile, Alan...
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    are known for the predatory habits of their larvae, which mostly dig pits to trap passing ants or other prey. In North America, the larvae are sometimes...
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    A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground. Urine and feces enter the pit through...
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  • Pit Boss is an American television series docudrama that follows Shorty Rossi, owner of Shorty's Rescue, an organization set up for Pit Bull rescue. The...
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    The Xiaozhai Tiankeng (小寨天坑), also known as the Xiaozhai Heavenly Pit, is the world's deepest sinkhole located in the Shaanxi cluster. It is located in...
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    A fire pit or a fire hole can vary from a pit dug in the ground to an elaborate gas burning structure of stone, brick, and metal. The defining feature...
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  • espresso, placing a skull sticker on her back, and dropping her into a trapping pit. However, the gag backfires as Hiiro instead finds the tarantula cute...
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  • to bargain for the release of his friends. Jabba opens a trap door and Luke falls into a pit where he battles and kills the Rancor. Afterwards, Jabba...
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    Cesspit (redirect from Cess-pit)
    Cesspit, cesspool and soak pit in some contexts are terms with various meanings: they are used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed...
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