trapper

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Mississippi Delta-born Rizzo is a trapper with Coyote, Wildlife and Pest Solutions, which was hired by Torrance in the fall of 2021, city documents show.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

“I’m not a trapper, nor a reggaetónero,” he reminds us all in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

He says an old trapper there taught him the Indigenous method of making buckskin leather by soaking hides in animal brains and tanning them using wood smoke.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Mr. Fitzsimons, a recreational trapper, was also carrying a six-foot-long unstrung archery bow and a fur pelt draped across his neck.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

At one end a trapper skinned his raccoons and at the other Florence scraped dirt from a mound of sweet potatoes.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead