Noun

1. A kind of trap for large animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey.
2. A cheap, rough saloon or bar.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 406:

     They had lived down in horse barns, army “A” tents with the old blood-stains onto them, city hotels with canopy beds, woke up in back rooms of deadfalls where the bars had toothmarks end to end.