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trapping line Fur Trade 
the route or trail followed by a trapper maintaining his series of traps.
See also: trapline (def. 2a)
- 1896 (1898) Our course was toward the south, for two days, along Francois' trapping trail, where he found a few martens and a fisher in his traps and a dozen hares in snares.
- 1921 He had admonished them that only white men and half-breeds would use dogs to haul a sled on a trapping path.
- 1936 In mid afternoon I came upon a trapping trail which I resolved to follow, thinking it might lead me out of the maze.
- 1964 "I could never forget my poor late father's and my older brother's labours on their trapping lines in Northern Quebec to earn me my education."
- 1896 (1898) Our course was toward the south, for two days, along Francois' trapping trail, where he found a few martens and a fisher in his traps and a dozen hares in snares.