What is "ferret out"

Usage examples of "ferret out".

Putting his notes into a coherent form, he called in one of his aides and sent the young man down to ferret out all the disparate rescue objects and lay them out on the floor of the manor armory.

Lord Damug sent Skaup the ferret out wirra 'undred or more, to 'unt 'em down.

But it had taken Klein to ferret out the exact nature of her cover and where Smith could locate her.

That could go a long way: Wagner had official influence and would get ms thrown out of Linsdorf and it was part of the mission to stay here and ferret out all I could.

It wasn't that I felt the need for extra comforts of any sort, but for a recruitable agent -- in -- place with an unbreakable cover who could ferret out information for me that might indirectly further my progress in the mission or even protect my life -- because there was a second possible scenario in my mind: Zymyanin might be perfectly reliable, a good agent understandably scared off by the Bucharest thing and unwilling to risk another rendezvous, in which case he was no danger to me.

Luke has an idea -- use with the Force with the autobeacon to ferret out the spy.

It was now up to Allan Su and his staff to go through Anthony Chin's books and ferret out just what had been done to All-Asia, to see if it was still a viable entity.

But this was all background, and useful as it was, he had left it up to Philip and Michiko to ferret out the current activities, inclinations and long-range goals of these three families—.