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Animal that drives rabbits from their burrows
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ferret
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Word definitions for ferret in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ferrets die: Two ferrets died when fire swept through a garden shed in Ilkley Grove, Hartlepool. ▪ After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret . ▪ In 1973, a small group ...
Usage examples of ferret.
The ferrets were removed the evening of the murders by the Allegheny Animal Control Department and taken to the humane shelter on the North Side.
Edwin Warrener come to bring some conies for our supper an a parcel of ferrets for your entertainment.
He then winked at Elys, asked her gravely if she would be so kind as to tell Mistress Mayngod that Edwin was busy with an injured ferret, and would not be bringing any conies until tomorrow.
Edwin had spent the whole of the previous night out with his ferrets, which thought this a desirable departure from his normal expectation that they should work during the day, when, as any ferret knows, conies are out of their burrows and harder to catch, and any sensible ferret fast asleep.
It was a show, Corvus knew: underneath the genteel exterior was a man with all the refinement and sensitivity of a ferret.
For Ixil, a starship-engine mechanic, the ferrets were invaluable in dealing with wiring or tubing or anything else involving tight spaces or narrow conduits.
The two ferrets came in twice while I was talking, dumping their scouting information on Ixil and presumably getting new instructions before scampering off again.
Perhaps they had not completely eluded the Kirghiz, but he believed it would take some time for even those human bloodhounds to ferret them out, and he did not fear discovery by the inhabitants of Yolgan.
Ferret was a teller in the Middletown Trust Company, the bank situated in the center of the block he had noticed on his first day in town.
He and Ferret had become but recently acquainted, as far as Middletown knew.
CHAPTER VII THE SHADOW PONDERS AT the very moment when Ferret, in Middletown, was fancying that the affairs of Joel Hawkins were of little interest elsewhere, a brain in uptown New York was thinking of Ferret.
CHAPTER XVII JUDGE KEEPS AN APPOINTMENT IN the dimly lighted banking room of the Middletown Trust Company, Major and Ferret were at work.
Professional ratcatchers ferreted the bank once or twice, and filled their iron cages.
Ugly animals the size of ferrets, sometime burrow-raiders who scavenged opportunistically from the kills of other predators, the miacoids were an unprepossessing bunch, but nonetheless were the ancestors of the mighty cats and wolves and bears of later times.
Others would fly aboard EP-3B ferret aircraft that eavesdropped near the massive Soviet port of Vladivostok and elsewhere.