trapper
IPA: trˈæpɝ
noun
- One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
- (mining) A (usually, child) worker who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
- An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
- (slang) A drug dealer. See also trap house.
- (slang) A performer of trap music.
Advertisement
Examples of "trapper" in Sentences
- The last one was trapper keeper.
- The trapper was dying of smallpox.
- He worked for 15 years as a trapper.
- Hawkeye and Trapper nail the door shut.
- Jack soon becomes a trapper and hermit.
- The trapper is a variation of the lurker.
- He was a trapper and a farmer and a rancher.
- Dotter was another hunter/trapper of the area.
- In that sense, it is the counter to the human trapper.
- The trappers considered this a ruse, but a parley was initiated.