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n. - Someone who sets snares or other devices for animals (usually to obtain their furs).

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  • The trapper is depicted getting his foot caught in a trap, and more.
  • With here and there a Rocky Mountain trapper or a buckskin - clad scout of the Kit Carson type, in the main they are backwoods farmers.
  • A trapper is a man who catches animals in traps in order to get their skins to sell.
  • The trapper was the first to shake off its influence, as he had been the last to court its refreshment.
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