Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Mr. Beebe sailed towards the Caribbean and, within the Leeward Islands, began to investigate Saba Bank in shallow waters 36 to 2,700 feet deep. A green and yellow octopus, an irridescent bronze colored fish found living inside a giant red sea-cucumber, butterfly fish, trigger fish and porcupine fish were procured as well as whole colonies of coral and sponges...
Garvie had been unable to find his own gun, had borrowed the stage carpenter's. He was not supposed to pull the trigger-but he did. It was a case of "So sorry, my mistake...
Used Wooden Trigger Traps...
There are also wooden traps which work on the same principle as the bow and arrow. The trap is set and held in place by a trigger, which is released by the animal...
...Play for the national mixed doubles title was interlarded with the men's matches. By the end of the week young Helen Wills and young Vincent Richards were left to face the 1923 champions, Molla Mallory and "BigHearted Bill" Tilden. The younger pair, on a hair-trigger edge, fired away brilliantly, bagged the title...