DCHP-1 Online
trap house 
n. Fur Trade a small structure usually built against a tree trunk or bank and used for housing bait, a trap for small animals being set inside the entrance.
See also: house (def. 3)
- 1931 . . . on nearly every occasion on which a valuable animal entered a trap house, the rabbits were there first. . . .
- 1933 From here on we stopped about every fifteen minutes to dig out a trap, bait it, set it and fix the trap house if necessary.
- 1958 [They] had trap houses on the banks of Seton Creek.
- 1931 . . . on nearly every occasion on which a valuable animal entered a trap house, the rabbits were there first. . . .