A trap resembling a basket, used for catching crayfish.
his boat capsized while he was checking craypots off Cape Douglas
Example sentencesExamples
The men left to check cray pots on the the western side of the island.
With the island season approaching, now is a busy time for craypot manufacturers.
He drowned while retrieving cray pots just beyond the breakers.
The cray pot contained 40 undersized crayfish, some as small as 40 mm.
The man believes he was cut by a stingray as he was retrieving a cray pot.
You can walk a cray pot into the sea and find it teeming with catch the next day.
I left with some friends to go tuna fishing and the boat's engine propellers got caught in craypot buoys.
Rescue teams have spent three hours working to free a nine metre humpback whale tangled in a craypot rope.
The victim was helping her husband pull a craypot on board their aluminium dinghy when the wave struck, flinging the couple on to rocks.
The backdrop was a contrast between the beach and the bush, with a dinghy, cray pots, lighthouse, cockatoos, seashells, an outback toilet and windmill included in the display.
Origin
Early 20th century: from a shortening of crayfish + pot1.