deadfall

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[edit] English

From dead + fall.

deadfall (plural deadfalls)

(US) A kind of trap for large animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey.
deadwood
(US, slang) A cheap, rough saloon or bar.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 406:
  
  They had lived down in horse barns, army “A” tents with the old blood-stains onto them, city hotels with canopy beds, woke up in back rooms of deadfalls where the bars had toothmarks end to end.