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Definition of trapline
: a line or series of traps; also : the route along which such a line of traps is set
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In one of Minnesota’s most extensive trapping cases, two men are accused of running traplines that included more than 600 illegally set snares for wildlife across four Northeastern Minnesota counties.
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1920
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