DCHP-2

fur path DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.