trapper
Example Sentences
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But back in 1831, he found himself rather hard up in L.A., and took work as a shipbuilder and trapper.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
Pitting a lovestruck fur trapper against a bucktoothed horde, this underground festival hit is a feverish fit of creative buffoonery — you haven’t experienced anything remotely like it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
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
The regulators called at all hours, visiting the poorest trapper and wealthiest magistrate alike.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
