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trapline
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n. A series or line of traps.
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 in the geography of the local area. Because of this traditional knowledge, traplines are not only of interest to trappers themselves but to researchers and others (governments, corporations) interested in local history, biology, and topography. The assignment of particular trapline territories to individuals in band societies was traditionally handled by group consensus, and occasionally violence and warfare. In the present-day trapline assignment is typically formalized and controlled by the state. Formalized trapline territory boundaries now form the basis for many major land-use projects in fur-rich regions.
One of the entitlements that goes along with possessing a trap territory is the right to erect a trapper’s cabin: a simple shelter in which a trapper can stay while moving around his territory. Trappers' cabins are a cultural icon of fur regions, and an important part of the national mythos of countries and regions such as Canada and Alaska, and among groups such as the Métis.
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.