furbearing
- a word derived from furbearer.
Example Sentences
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In the 2018-2019 trapping season, licensed trappers caught more than 2.7 million furbearing animals — a category that includes coyotes, beavers, raccoons, mink, and wolves.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2022
In the 19th century, furriers killed off many of the furbearing animals and, in so doing, their trade as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
N. C., where we expected to be kept up a good portion of the night in order to keep up with the skinning and stretching of the numerous furbearing animals caught during the day.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
One is not likely to mistake the track of the bear, as it is the largest of the furbearing animals.
From Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture by Kreps, Elmer Harry
Since they hunt the furbearing animals in the neighboring forests during the winter, they diminish the food supply of the hunters who dwell permanently in the forest, and thus make their life still more difficult.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Huntington, Ellsworth
