DCHP-2

trap house DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.