Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who traps animals for their fur.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a business of trapping wild animals, usually such as yield fur, as the marten or sable, mink, otter, beaver, and muskrat.
- noun A trap-fisher.
- noun In mining, a boy or girl in a coal-mine who opens the air-doors of the galleries for the passage of the coal-wagons.
- noun A horse for use in a trap.
- noun The housing and defensive armor of a horse, especially of a horse caparisoned for a just or tournament: generally in the plural. Compare
bard .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
- noun (Mining) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
traps animals ; one who makes a business of trapping animals for theirfurs . - noun A boy who opens and shuts a
trapdoor in a gallery or level. - noun Ornamental covering for a horse. See
trapping /caparison .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)
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Examples
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The trapper is depicted getting his foot caught in a trap, and more.
An Enduring Marriage 2009
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Yankee trader rounded the Horn, or the first Rocky Mountain trapper thirsted across the "Great American Desert" and trickled down the snowy Sierras to the sun-kissed land.
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The trapper is depicted getting his foot caught in a trap, and more.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Yankee trader rounded the Horn, or the first Rocky Mountain trapper thirsted across the "Great American Desert" and trickled down the snowy Sierras to the sun-kissed land.
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Even here, the white man's history preceded them, for dim tradition says that the Russians once anchored here and hunted sea-otter before the first Yankee trader rounded the Horn, or the first Rocky Mountain trapper thirsted across the "Great American Desert" and trickled down the snowy Sierras to the sun-kissed land.
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With here and there a Rocky Mountain trapper or a buckskin - clad scout of the Kit Carson type, in the main they are backwoods farmers.
The Acorn-Planter 1916
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With here and there a Rocky Mountain trapper or a buckskin - clad scout of the Kit Carson type, in the main they are backwoods farmers.
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An American trapper from the short distance he has to travel is not obliged to transport provisions requires only 1/2 the number of horses and very moderate in his advances.
Journal of Peter Skene Ogden; Snake Expedition, 1827-1828 1828
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There's plenty of warm headgear to choose from besides those hats with the goofy ear flaps, known as trapper or trooper hats.
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Lykken recalls a trapper and bush pilot from northern Minnesota "who had adventures that made my jaw drop," he says.
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