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What is tanglefoot?

What is tanglefoot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic, colloquial) Low-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.
  2. A sticky substance put at the base of trees or other plants to trap insects and prevent them from climbing up.
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Ants were excluded by placing Tanglefoot around a tape and wax-paper sleeve at the base of the plant, and by clipping the surrounding vegetation.
Make your own sticky trap by smearing Vaseline or Tanglefoot on a yellow surface and hang it up close to where the adults congregate.
Visual colour traps coated with tanglefoot have also provided effective control for apple maggot, a later season pest with a low economic threshold.
But Dooley's Irish blood was up, five fingers of tanglefoot tingling in each fist and bubbling in his brain.
For the love of goodness, Fritz, give me a snifter of tanglefoot!
They never seemed to want anything, even at the sutler's store, though the Lord knows there wasn't much there they could want except tanglefoot and tobacco.

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