DCHP-1 Online
trapping camp 
1 an Indian camp used as headquarters during a hunt.
- 1938 Each day there were fewer tepees on the reservation, for one by one the families were paddling away through the early snow flurries to their winter trapping camps.
- 1947 However, long before time to leave for their trapping camps, they gather in Fort Resolution, drink their rum . . . and play poker.
- 1965 In each district, the Department of Lands and Forests keeps a close watch on the trapping camps.
2 a simple cabin serving as quarters for a trapper.
See also: trapping cabin
- 1954 I strolled across the creek and into the spruce where there was an old trapping camp and cache.
- 1956 In all my years in the North never once have I been "lousy." That includes nights . . . far north of the Churchill in moss-chinked trapping camps. . . .
- 1938 Each day there were fewer tepees on the reservation, for one by one the families were paddling away through the early snow flurries to their winter trapping camps.