DCHP-1 Online
cat-house 
n. among trappers, a protective housing placed over a trap or a bait; trap-house.
- 1770 (1792) The furriers took four traps out of cat-houses near home, and carried them down the river, where they tailed them for foxes.
- 1819 Over the whole is a cat-house, or hut of boughs, to defend the trap from the snow.
- 1955 cat-house. . . .
- 1770 (1792) The furriers took four traps out of cat-houses near home, and carried them down the river, where they tailed them for foxes.