cat-house

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among trappers, a protective housing placed over a trap or a bait; trap-house.

Quotations

1770

The furriers took four traps out of cat-houses near home, and carried them down the river, where they tailed them for foxes.

1819

Over the whole is a cat-house, or hut of boughs, to defend the trap from the snow.

1955

cat-house. . . .