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Trapper vs Hunter - What's the difference?

trapper | hunter |

As nouns the difference between trapper and hunter

is that trapper is one who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs while hunter is one who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.

As a proper noun Hunter is

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trapper

English

(Animal trapping)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
  • A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
  • Ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping/caparison.
  • hunter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
  • A dog used in hunting.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
  • Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.
  • One who hunts or seeks after anything.
  • The hunter becomes the hunted.
    a fortune hunter
  • * Tennyson
  • No keener hunter after glory breathes.
  • A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
  • A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
  • Derived terms

    * fortune hunter * white hunter

    See also

    * ("hunter" on Wikipedia) ----