Trapping is valid Scrabble Word

Is trapping a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for TRAPPING in dictionary:

VERB:

catch (an animal) in a trap.
prevent (someone) from escaping from a place
have (something, typically a part of the body) held tightly by something so that it cannot be freed
bring (the ball) under control with the foot or other part of the body on receiving it
trick or deceive (someone) into doing something contrary to their interests or intentions
put trappings on (a horse)

NOUN:

a covering for a horse
a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body
the compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race.
a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack

a trick by which someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests or intentions
an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape
a container or device used to collect something, or a place where something collects
a curve in the waste pipe from a bath, basin, or toilet that is always full of liquid and prevents gases from coming up the pipe into the building.
a bunker or other hollow on a golf course.
a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony.
a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at.
(in the game of trapball) the shoe-shaped device that is hit with a bat to send the ball into the air.
(among jazz musicians) drums or percussion instruments
a place where drugs are sold
basalt or a similar dark, fine-grained igneous rock.
stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
a person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to catch in a trap (a device for capturing and holding animals)

Words related to TRAPPING

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Words that contain TRAPPING

strapping14 trappings14 attrapping15 entrapping15 strappings15 unstrapping16 livetrapping20 bootstrapping20 mousetrapping20 mousetrappings21 understrapping20

How to use TRAPPING in a sentence

We began trapping near Junction City, Kansas, and then proceeded up the Republican River to the mouth of Prairie Dog Creek, where we found plenty of beavers.
None the less she was glad when they reached the trapping ground and Onistah called a halt for dinner.
He also complained of white and half-breed hunters intruding on their grounds, whose means for trapping and killing animals are superior to those of the Indians.
Thereafter, that they might keep up with him, all men were trapping and breaking wild horses.
He offered him arms, but the boy refused them all, except a little trapping axe.
A trapping expedition is being fitted out for the Rocky mountains, on an extensive scale.
My indignation, on learning that that woman had succeeded in trapping our Iron King, led me into extravagant language on the subject.
With his share of the furs captured by the end of the trapping season, Indian Jake discharged his old debt with the Company.
Here he dwelt for years, hunting, trapping, and enjoying life in his own wild way.
When they were fully recruited, the party started for the San Joaquin, and commenced trapping down the river.

What gave the men great surprise, they discovered unmistakable signs of another trapping party.
This band had been formed for the purpose of trapping the principal streams of the Rocky Mountains.
Shortly after this arrival, four men from the trapping party came into camp and brought the news as to the whereabouts of Gaunt and his men.
Robidoux who had a party of twenty men in his employ and who was engaged both in trapping and trading according as opportunity presented itself.
McCoy had been unsuccessful and had concluded to organize a trapping expedition.
In the streams adjacent to that country, the beaver existed in large numbers and their success in trapping was excellent.
Thence they went to Malade River, trapping down it to where it empties into the Big Snake River.
They continued on up this latter river, and then, after trapping on Goose Creek and Raft River, returned to Fort Hall.
They soon accomplished their journey and began the business of trapping.
This eager longing resulted, therefore, in the forming of a regular trapping expedition after the olden style, shape, etc, which he organized with great care and attention.
It was yet too early by three weeks to begin the actual trapping, but much in the way of preparation had to be done in the meantime.
From the base tilt the trapping paths or trails lead out.
Ice prevents trapping for the otter in winter, but they are often shot.
And there was a little boy whose father was frozen to death at his trapping one winter, a bright little chap now in the home and going to school.
The head of each family has his own special trapping ground in the interior, over which others may travel, fish, or shoot, but not trap.
The trapping had been good and he had hated to leave while the skins were heaping up.
When the trapping season and the maple-sugar making were over and his profits drunk up, time was the largest possession of an Indian.
Never had Mukoki or Wabigoon been in a better trapping ground, and every visit to their lines added to their hoard of furs.
Trapping was exceptionally good now on account of the scarcity of animal food and since the big storm they had captured a wolf, two lynx, a red fox and eight mink.
Trapping is exceedingly interesting for it is a contest of wits between the trapper and the animal with the odds by no means in favor of the former.
In the fall we concluded to try another trapping tour, and set out for Prairie du Chien.
We had splendid success this winter in trapping beaver.
Beaver was very plentiful, as there had never been any trappers in this part of the country before, and besides that was an exceptional good winter for trapping.
It was early in March when Will returned from his trapping expedition.
Winter closed in, and with it came the memories of the trapping season of 1860-61, when he had laid low his first and last bear.
The outing proved to be much longer than the editor expected, and trapping a bear quite a different matter from killing one.
But these were mostly concerned with hunting and trapping.

Similar words containing TRAPP without suffix ing

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