trapper

What it means

1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.

   The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189

2. historicalbusinessA worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
3. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.

In a sentence

The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189

Where it comes from

From trap + -er, compare french trappeur.