trapping-grounds

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

an area where Indians carry on trapping and hunting.

Quotations

1903

The Ojibway family . . . searches out new trapping-grounds. . . .

1907

The sanctity of their trapping-grounds is considered inviolate by the Micmacs.

1956

When his father sold his furs from their Kelta Lake trapping grounds, there would be candy and treats all round.