DCHP-3

trapping line

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the route or trail followed by a trapper maintaining his series of traps.

See: trapline(def. 2a)

Quotations

1896
Our course was toward the south, for two days, along Francois' trapping trail, where he found a few martens and a fisher in his traps and a dozen hares in snares.
1921
He had admonished them that only white men and half-breeds would use dogs to haul a sled on a trapping path.
1936
In mid afternoon I came upon a trapping trail which I resolved to follow, thinking it might lead me out of the maze.
1964
"I could never forget my poor late father's and my older brother's labours on their trapping lines in Northern Quebec to earn me my education."