ATDTDA (13) lotta livin' / yup toy & the ice machine / race issues?
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 08:16:08 CDT 2007
On 7/21/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> p360 "They had lived down in horse barns, army 'A' tents with the old bloodstains onto them, city hotels with canopy beds, woke up in back rooms of deadfalls where the bars had toothmarks end to end."
>
> deadfall - isn't that a tree that fell down? The context suggests it's a roadhouse? where people pass out and their teeth hit the bar? or beavers chew on it?
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=deadfall
Main Entry: deadĀ·fall
Function: noun
1 : a trap so constructed that a weight (as a heavy log) falls on an
animal and kills or disables it
2 : a tangled mass of fallen trees and branches
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