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.
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Examples of "trapper" in Sentences
- The trapper is depicted getting his foot caught in a trap, and more.
- Lykken recalls a trapper and bush pilot from northern Minnesota "who had adventures that made my jaw drop," he says.
- There's plenty of warm headgear to choose from besides those hats with the goofy ear flaps, known as trapper or trooper hats.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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