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