DCHP-3

marten road

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a series of traps set and maintained by a trapper who periodically runs the line, removing the trapped animals and resetting the traps.

See: trapline(def. 1)

Quotations

1900
It is a well known fact that many a trapper has had to abandon his "marten road" and move to another locality when Carcajou has set up to drive him out.
1900
François and Rod shouldered each a bag of Traps and started to lay out the Marten Road, as was called a big circle of Traps extending perhaps thirty miles, for the Winter's hunt.