Bell trap

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a kind of bell shaped stench trap.

See also: Bell

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Then a Victorian obsession with drainage led to the invention of the abominable 'bell trap', known more commonly as 'the stink trap'.
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