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outcabin
Esp. North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a temporary shelter such as might be used by a trapper out tending his line.
See: outcamp(def. 1)
Quotations
1935
The routine of the trap line, with its long cold nights spent at the makeshift "outcabins," called for greater and greater effort, and more and more the heavier work devolved upon Miller.
1954
Then try it all day in zero weather over miles of mountain country, and come home at night to a cold cabin or, better yet, to an open camp such as we had, scattered around Deadman's Valley; for we built no out-cabins.