rat ((v.))

Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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trap muskrats.

Quotations

1931

The 154 men, women, and children ratting in the Crow Flats took out more than 51,000 muskrat skins alone.

1949

[She] was ratting on the Old Crow Flats, the wide area of lakes and marsh from which the Vanta-kutchin get their name.