fort trapper

North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trapper, usually an Indian, who sets out trap lines near a trading post at which he deals.

Quotations

1938

When they surrendered their nomadic hunting existence to become "fort trappers" this no-man's-land widened into a vast uninhabited area. . . .