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Series of snares
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trapline
Word definitions for trapline in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the fur trade , a trapline is a route along which a trapper sets traps for his or her quarry. Trappers traditionally move habitually along the route to set and check the traps, in so doing become skilled at traversing remote terrain, and become experts ...
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n. A series or line of traps.
Usage examples of trapline.
He began to worry about his trapline, though it would be a while until he would be able to tend it.
But she did spend over half the year in the bush, running a trapline in the winter, harvesting medicines, that kind of thing.
How natural, then, with my youth and young manhood passed in patrolling a trapline and hunting for my meals, that I would make a marksman when called to the War.
Jeremy for his timely help and was more than willing to sign him on as a crew member to paddle, run a trapline, or catch fish or serve as a local guide.
Eventually the Scholar, whose mind only gradually cleared itself of the cobwebs of drugs and his strenuous attempts at magic, remembered to express gratitude to Jeremy for his timely help and was more than willing to sign him on as a crew member to paddle, run a trapline, or catch fish or serve as a local guide.
Scholar, whose mind only gradually cleared itself of the cobwebs of drugs and his strenuous attempts at magic, remembered to express gratitude to Jeremy for his timely help and was more than willing to sign him on as a crew member to paddle, run a trapline, or catch fish or serve as a local guide.
This morning, about dawn, she was walking her trapline along the ditch, and went up on top to look at that grove of trees.
I knew that the trapline described a rough circle, but had no idea precisely how many snares there were.
The lack of fight when he spreadeagled the trapline thief surprised him a little, but not much.
Five decades of running traplines for nutria and muskrat had left him rangy and quick, impervious to injury.
One day when I returned from my traplines I found my home-cave deserted.
Afterward Jay checked his traplines and returned with a catch of three, strangled in his snares.
But they insist that by laying low and setting out traplines, the system will find him before he can do any damage.
I enjoyed shoveling the mountains of chicken manure, staying up all night with new piglets, watching mosquito eggs hatch, and trying to trap enough small, furry animals on my trapline to make a pair of mitts.