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fur path 
1 the route or trail followed by a trapper maintaining his series of traps.
See also: trapline (def. 2a)
- 1921 The reason the brute is so persistent in following a hunter's fur path is that it usually affords the wolverine an abundance of food.
- 1933 A fur path is, of course, not a path at all. It is a trap line. . . . the "path" is just like the rest of the forest, unless there are blazes.
2 the general area in which a trapper has trapping rights.
See also: trapline (def. 2b)
- 1933 A fur path in these parts is handed down from father to son. It consists mainly of a hazily defined territory. . . . that land is his to hunt, and no one else's.
- 1921 The reason the brute is so persistent in following a hunter's fur path is that it usually affords the wolverine an abundance of food.