lobster pot
a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
Origin of lobster pot
1- Also called lobster trap .
Words Nearby lobster pot
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How to use lobster pot in a sentence
Holy saints, skipper, ye'd not be sendin' me to choppin' poles wid a head on me like a lobster-pot?
The Harbor Master | Theodore Goodridge RobertsShe wouldn't live in a dirty house no more'n she'd live in a lobster pot.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine | Joseph C. LincolnThis Lecture Room I dont think was originally meant for pictures and acts on the principle of a lobster pot.
An Autobiography | Elizabeth ButlerNothing was found but a battered old lobster pot, crammed with seaweed and little green crabs.
Aircraft and Submarines | Willis J. Abbot.Much trouble would have been spared to himself and his translators, if Bbur had known a lobster-pot.
The Bbur-nma in English | Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
British Dictionary definitions for lobster pot
a round basket or trap made of open slats used to catch lobsters
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