DCHP-2
fur trail DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
the route or trail followed by a trapper maintaining his series of traps.
See also: trapline (def. 2a)
- 1921 As to the Indian mode of dressing meat and skins--more anon, when we are finally settled upon the fur trail.
- 1938 But death stalked the fur trails in other districts too.
2
a route followed by persons engaged in the fur trade.
- 1966 A fur trail led east on the Anderson Creek from near modern-day Boston Bar and connected with the Nicola and Okanagan regions.
- 1921 As to the Indian mode of dressing meat and skins--more anon, when we are finally settled upon the fur trail.