Tiger Trap
Tiger trap may refer to: *Trou de loup, also known as tiger trap, a medieval booby trap * Tiger Trap, an American pop band **Tiger Trap (album) ''Tiger Trap'' is the only album released by the band Tiger Trap. It was released in 1993 on K Records and was produced by Calvin Johnson. With about 10,000 copies sold, it was K Records' best-selling album until they released Beck's '' One Foot ...

Trou De Loup
In medieval fortification, a trou de loup (French for "wolf hole"; plural trous de loup, also commonly referred to as a tiger pit in the East) was a type of booby trap or defensive obstacle. Each trou de loup consisted of a conical pit about deep and wide at the top. At the bottom of the pit, a sharpened punji stick (wooden stake) would be hammered in. In some cases, the pit was concealed by light cover of wicker and a layer of soil. Trous de loup might be found singly as a trap (in which case they were always concealed), or in a dense pattern with no gaps between pits, used as an obstacle in front of a defended position. A field of trous de loup could be made more effective if subsequently flooded to a shallow depth, which would conceal the pits, make their sides slippery, and add the risk of drowning. Sometimes rotting meat or feces would be smeared onto the points to cause serious infection or death. History Even though the term has a medieval origin, this kind of de ...
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Tiger Trap
Tiger trap may refer to: *Trou de loup, also known as tiger trap, a medieval booby trap * Tiger Trap, an American pop band **Tiger Trap (album) ''Tiger Trap'' is the only album released by the band Tiger Trap. It was released in 1993 on K Records and was produced by Calvin Johnson. With about 10,000 copies sold, it was K Records' best-selling album until they released Beck's '' One Foot ...