trap house

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n. — Fur Trade

a small structure usually built against a tree trunk or bank and used for housing bait, a trap for small animals being set inside the entrance.

See: house(def. 3)

Quotations

1931

. . . on nearly every occasion on which a valuable animal entered a trap house, the rabbits were there first. . . .

1933

From here on we stopped about every fifteen minutes to dig out a trap, bait it, set it and fix the trap house if necessary.

1958

[They] had trap houses on the banks of Seton Creek.