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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
the route or trail followed by a trapper maintaining his series of traps.
See: trapline(def. 2a)
Quotations
1921
The reason the brute is so persistent in following a hunter's fur path is that it usually affords the wolverine an abundance of food.
1933
A fur path is, of course, not a path at all. It is a trap line. . . . the "path" is just like the rest of the forest, unless there are blazes.
2
the general area in which a trapper has trapping rights.
See: trapline(def. 2b)
Quotations
1933
A fur path in these parts is handed down from father to son. It consists mainly of a hazily defined territory. . . . that land is his to hunt, and no one else's.