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noun

Trapper n.

One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.

(Mining) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.

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Etymology of 'Trapper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... cold winter moved slowly along, and they remained on the island, though Henry and Ross ranged far and wide. On one of these expeditions the two scouts met a wandering trapper, by whom they sent word again to their people in the south ...

— The Forest Runners - A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... end of the portage I waited for Simmo to come round the bend, and took him back to see the work, denouncing the heartless carelessness of the trapper who had gone away in the spring and left an unsprung deadfall as a menace to the wild things. At the first glance he pronounced it an otter trap. Then the fear and wonder swept into his face, and ...

— Secret of the Woods • William J. Long

... long and hard at this old trapper's yarn, and weak as I was myself, I was disposed to join him. Orme was the only one who did not ridicule the story. Auberry himself was disgusted at the merriment. "I knowed you wouldn't believe it," he said. "There is no use tellin' a passel ...

— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough

... the bad rapids. As to this method, unused as yet by either of us, we had received careful verbal instruction from Mr. Stone, who had made the trip two years before our own venture; and from other friends of Nathan Galloway, the trapper, the man who first introduced the method on ...

— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb

... passed an uneasy day, the "jug" for once receiving scant attention. Late in the afternoon "Trapper John," an old half-breed who hunted and trapped about the woods, stopped at the camp ...

— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

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