What are wing and/or leads in a trap?

Question

In an animal trap, can someone please tell me what wings and leads are? Thank you.

Answer 1

Hey that gives me a question...

Answer 2

When it is pertaining to fish, the wings, or leads, guide the fish into the catching part of the net- I feel the same thing would apply to an animal trap - it would lead or guide them into the trap.

Answer 3

Here is a link with the key words high lighted;

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:RlE...

So you see its part of the trap for shrimp and also others make fish traps with a similar set up. The wings or leads direct the fish into the main trap. Some have driven bamboo stakes in the beach at low tide in a W shape as the tide went out the fish were trapped in the bottom of that W shaped fence. Others are driven in a river angleing towards the bank, the fish follow the *wings* or fence into a funnel shaped opening into the holding pen or net.

Here is what the wings of a fish trap look like, with different set ups;

http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/AC01...

http://www.rk19-bielefeld-mitte.de/survi...

Primitive man used this on land and drove the animals into the *wings* or fence to funnel them into a small area to be trapped, netted or killed by primitive weapons.