Crossword-Solution: DEADFALL 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Halfway across, at a point where the path ran over a little brook, I found a deadfall set squarely in the way of unwary feet.

Near old Noel's deadfall he paused an instant with raised head, in the curious snake-like attitude that all the weasels take when watching.

Then I noticed for the first time that the old path near the deadfall was getting moss-grown; a faint new path began to show among the alders.

The mink, changing from brown to black, gave up his nest-robbing for honest hunting, undismayed by trap or deadfall; and up in the inlet I could see grassy domes rising above the bronze and gold of the marsh, where Musquash was building thick and high for winter cold and spring floods.

Hence by day and by night the deadfall is rigged and the trap is set and baited--baited with a spurious gayety and an imitation joyousness; but the joyousness is as thin as one coat of sizing, and the brass shines through the plating; and behind the painted, parted lips of laughter the sharp teeth of greed show in a glittering double row.