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.
A kind of trap for large animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey
{i} mass of fallen timber and tangled brush; trap for large animals in which a heavy weight falls on and kills or disables the prey