Crossword clues for ferreting
ferreting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferret \Fer"ret\, n. [Ital. foretto, dim. of fiore flower; or F. fleuret. Cf. Floret.] A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 hunting with ferrets. 2 ferret (tape used to tie documents) vb. (present participle of ferret English)
Usage examples of "ferreting".
Men cleaned their rifles, burnished their buttons and closed them to the neck, stubbed out their cigarettes and trembled a little while Castelani rampaged through the camp at Chaldi, dealing out duties, ferreting out the malingerers and stiffening spines with the swishing cane in his right hand.
While he had been ferreting out the gum, within those few seconds of elapsed time, the man in the hole had gone back to sleep.
Despite her ferretings in the society pages, Reenie didn’t know enough for that.
He drew deeper, ferreting power and drawing it into himself, until the Founder yielded something to him unexpectedly: he found himself absorbing once more the knowledge of the land-law of Hed.
At his feet some hens were ferreting among the bushes, and picking up the burnished insects that were running about in the sun.