trappings
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The sense of responsibility was transmitted through traplines and generations.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022
In Canada, where traps must pass to be used legally, he said, regulators never actually check traplines.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022
Even more frustrating to the 40 or so lobstermen affected: the cutters' propellers tend to get snarled in the traplines, resulting in dozens of lost traps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Researchers have been rushing to instrument the fault--"setting out traplines," as Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes, when Pa had walked his traplines quickly because the traps were empty, or when he had got some game sooner than usual, he would come home early.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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