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conibear

conibear noun: a kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.

Noun

conibear (plural conibears)

  1. A kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.
    • It was the killing of Cupcake, a border collie mix, in a conibear trap last winter that first spurred the anti-trapping campaign here.2008 April 30, Jim Robbins, “Montana Dog Owners Find Wild-Animal Traps Put Pets in Harm’s Way”, in New York Times

Proper noun capitalized: Conibear

Conibear

  1. A surname.

Forms of conibear

pluralconibears

Origin of conibear

Named after Frank Conibear, a Canadian who first constructed such a trap in 1957.

Questions about conibear

What does conibear mean?
Conibear means a kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.
What part of speech is conibear?
Conibear can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of conibear?
The plural of conibear is conibears.

Words near conibear in the dictionary

  1. coniacker
  2. coniackers
  3. coniasaur
  4. coniasaurs
  5. Conibas
  6. conibear
  7. conibears
  8. Conibo
  9. conic
  10. conic pepper
  11. conic peppers

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