Definition of Trap line

1. Noun. A line or series of traps.

Generic synonyms: Line

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trap Line

transworld
trant
tranted
tranter
tranters
tranting
trants
tranylcypromine
tranylcypromine sulfate
trap-and-drain auger
trap-bath split
trap-door spider
trap block
trap door
trap line (current term)
trap maker
trap makers
trap play
trap rock
trap set
trapan
trapanned
trapanner
trapanners
trapanning
trapans
trapball
trapdoor

Literary usage of Trap line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hunting Dogs: Describes in a Practical Manner the Training, Handling by Oliver Hartley (1909)
"THE DOG ON THE trap line SOME trappers will take issue in regard to the ... We have heard men say that they wanted no dog on the trap line with them, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"has given an admirable treatment of the use of this trap-line and of how it is often ... and feels every motion of it through the connecting trap-line. ..."

3. Cyclopedia of Engineering; a General Reference Work on Steam Boilers and by American Technical Society, Louis Derr (1919)
"During this operation the trap line valve on the analyzer was kept closed, ... On the trap line valve being opened, the generator began to fall short and ..."

4. Plumbing Fixture Traps: An Historical, Statistical and Experimental by August E. Hansen (1921)
"... wherever the dotted % S trap line fpr any particular size stack opening is on the left of the full anti-siphon trap line for the same size stack opening ..."

5. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper: Experiences and Observations of E. N by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock, Arthur Robert Harding (1913)
"ELL, comrades of the trap line, as I see so many interest- ing letters from trappers in the HTT, the best of all sporting magazines, I will relate some of ..."

6. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper: Experiences and Observations of E. N by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock, Arthur Robert Harding (1913)
"ELL, comrades of the trap line, as I see so many interest- ing letters from trappers in the HTT, the best of all sporting magazines, I will relate some of ..."

7. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri & Great Plains by Joseph Henry Taylor (1897)
"Ailer assisting in attending the trap line for a couple of weeks, Weaver took a sudden spell of discontent and abandoned a trapper's life for his old ..."

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