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Meanings of catch birds in English

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Usage of catch birds in English
1
They didn't see the spiders catch birds or bats, but say it's possible.
Wired
2
She built a hut to sleep in, and made snares to catch birds.
The Swiss Family Robinson, Told in Words of One Syllable
3
He climbed a tree and put up snares to catch birds.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the L...
4
A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch birds.
Aesop's Fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend
5
We could also share rabbits the sand dunes and catch birds with a crib.
The Irish Times
6
She knows no reason why she should not catch birds as well as mice.
Friends and Helpers
7
She taught him how to catch birds and squirrels.
The Tree-Dwellers
8
Show him how to catch birds if you like.
The Settlers at Home
9
We were riding a couple of horses that couldn't fly, but they could catch birds.
Sixes and Sevens
10
To catch birds, is not at all bad.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
11
If tennis is the word, I can put up nets fit to catch birds of paradise in.
An Unsocial Socialist
12
They catch birds by means of bird-lime made of gutta, by horse-hair nooses, and by imitating their call.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
13
The group were trafficked into Britain in 2008 and employed by DJ Houghton to catch birds in chicken houses.
Reuters
14
Mr Weeber said bottom trawling was the undersea equivalent to felling trees to catch birds and was destroying sea-life.
Radio NZ
15
A net to catch birds.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section A and B
16
She could even catch birds.
Lonesome dove
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