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Trapping   /trˈæpɪŋ/   Listen
Trapping

noun
1.
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse.  Synonyms: caparison, housing.


Trap

verb
(past & past part. trapped; pres. part. trapping)
1.
Place in a confining or embarrassing position.  Synonym: pin down.
2.
Catch in or as if in a trap.  Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel.
3.
Hold or catch as if in a trap.
4.
To hold fast or prevent from moving.  Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin.



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"Trapping" Quotes from Famous Books



... from th' parson's strawberry-plots, I hide by th' squire's covers; I teach the sweet young housemaids what's The art of trapping lovers. ...
— Fly Leaves • C. S. Calverley
... camp again, and started westward with wife and children, driving his cattle before him, in search of a "promised land" of few men and abundant game. He settled now beyond the Mississippi, about fifty miles west of St. Louis. Here he dwelt for years, hunting, trapping, and enjoying life ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... mind, that some years have passed since I was hunting and trapping in the woods and prairies, and that many changes have taken place since then among the Indians. Some have been tomahawked by the hands of the stronger tribes; some have given up their lands to the whites, and retired to the west of the Mississippi; and thousands ...
— History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians • George Mogridge
... courier had come in during the night. This was more than a letter. A number of papers had been folded in a handkerchief and bound with string. The address was written on a piece of white leather cut from the uniform of one who had fallen at Borodino, and had no more need of sabretasche or trapping. ...
— Barlasch of the Guard • H. S. Merriman
... him with his trapping. He learned to fish as well, for besides being a hunter, his father was an angler of State-wide reputation. The days on which his father accompanied him along the banks of the St. Joe, or to some more distant stream, were very specially happy ones. His cup was quite filled ...
— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)


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