DCHP-3

trapping cabin

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a simple cabin serving as quarters for a trapper.

Quotations

1921
[In cases where two trappers go into partnership, they lay out a much longer trap line and have a central cabin at which they meet on certain appointed days.]
1954
He had built a trapping cabin close to the springs some years previously.
1964
. . . spent their days in the solitude and isolation of their individual trapping cabins and tents.