Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who traps animals for their fur.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes a business of trapping wild animals, usually such as yield fur, as the marten or sable, mink, otter, beaver, and muskrat.
- n. A trap-fisher.
- n. In mining, a boy or girl in a coal-mine who opens the air-doors of the galleries for the passage of the coal-wagons.
- n. A horse for use in a trap.
- n. The housing and defensive armor of a horse, especially of a horse caparisoned for a just or tournament: generally in the plural. Compare bard.
Wiktionary
- n. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
- n. A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
- n. Ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping/caparison.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
- n. (Mining) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)
Examples
“The trapper is depicted getting his foot caught in a trap, and more.”
“Yankee trader rounded the Horn, or the first Rocky Mountain trapper thirsted across the "Great American Desert" and trickled down the snowy Sierras to the sun-kissed land.”
“Even here, the white man's history preceded them, for dim tradition says that the Russians once anchored here and hunted sea-otter before the first Yankee trader rounded the Horn, or the first Rocky Mountain trapper thirsted across the "Great American Desert" and trickled down the snowy Sierras to the sun-kissed land.”
“With here and there a Rocky Mountain trapper or a buckskin - clad scout of the Kit Carson type, in the main they are backwoods farmers.”
“An American trapper from the short distance he has to travel is not obliged to transport provisions requires only 1/2 the number of horses and very moderate in his advances.”
“There's plenty of warm headgear to choose from besides those hats with the goofy ear flaps, known as trapper or trooper hats.”
“Lykken recalls a trapper and bush pilot from northern Minnesota "who had adventures that made my jaw drop," he says.”
“The costume of the trapper is a hunting-shirt of dressed buckskin, ornamented with long fringes; pantaloons of the same material, and decorated with porcupine-quills and long fringes down the outside of the leg, a flexible felt hat and moccasins clothe his extremities.”
“Cropping the scant herbage on the flat behind the trapper was a lank, long-limbed horse from which he had just dismounted, and which looked travel-stained and weary like his master.”
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
“The trapper was a big, bullying Irish man named O'Fallen, who had purchased two prisoners from the Snake Indians, to be kept in a state of slavery, after the manner of the savages.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trapper’.
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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Furriery
Anything to do with the fur trade.
furriery, badger, trap, trapper, beaver, polecat, fitch, fitchew, mink, chinchilla, rabbit, fur and 47 more...
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