ferret
فیرریٹ
definition
verb
Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
(of a person) hunt with ferrets, typically for rabbits.
noun
Fishers are among the least understood of the weasel family, or mustelids, which also includes martens, minks, ermines, ferrets , badgers, otters, and wolverines.
a domesticated polecat kept as a pet or used, especially in Europe, for catching rabbits. It is typically albino or brown.
example
Each day he and his small team 'ferret' out the wholesale price of produce, a difficult task, given that transactions between producers and wholesalers aren't disclosed and prices aren't displayed.
she had the ability to 'ferret' out the facts
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the black-footed 'ferret' as an endangered species.
Directors always see something in you that you have to kind of 'ferret' out, in a way.
The predators included 13 raptors, ranging from great-horned owls to the American kestrel, and a domestic cat and a 'ferret' .
The wild black-footed 'ferret' , indigenous to North America, is an endangered species.
she had the ability to 'ferret' out the facts
he had a quick 'ferret' around
The good folks at the American Physical Society have noticed this, and have even initiated a contest to help 'ferret' out the reason for the equation's appearance.
The black-footed 'ferret' has come a long way since the late 1970s, when many people feared that it was extinct.
Opposite me sat a man with a 'ferret' or stoat (I'm not sure of the difference) sitting in the inside pocket of his jacket, from where it surveyed the rest of the carriage as he stroked its silky head.
The black-footed 'ferret' , swift fox, mountain plover, ferruginous hawk, burrowing owl, and other species are dependent upon prairie dogs to varying degrees.
Mr Smith then visited Saudi Arabia twice trying to 'ferret' the truth out of the authorities.
This is not the way search engines work right now, where they generally search for phrases or words in the entire content of the pages they can see, 'ferreting' around in more of a rummage than a skilled and honed inquiry.
Any 'ferreter' will tell you about the rabbits that have slipped through nets or used undiscovered bolt holes.
Fishers are among the least understood of the weasel family, or mustelids, which also includes martens, minks, ermines, 'ferrets' , badgers, otters, and wolverines.
Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and 'ferreting' - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
I just 'ferreted' this hole as I wanted to find out where all the bolt holes were before I gassed it, and as I had the nets in my pocket I thought ...why not!
I had 'ferreted' around my closet for a CD that seemed mildly interesting to me, since most of my music was on my laptop, and I was disgusted with the failed search.
While domestic ferrets are common pets, black-footed 'ferrets' , are one of North America's most endangered mammals.
While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even 'ferrets' , brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
You could have possums, chamois, 'ferrets' , stoats, flopsy bunnykins and even the common cat.
We 'ferreted' several warrens, and thus several breeding groups, in each capture area.
Yet nothing will deter my teams of trained stoats, 'ferrets' and weasels from carrying out my orders and enabling me to achieve ultimate power.
The group has worked on a number of projects including forensic searches for illegally killed wolves in Montana and presence-detection of black footed 'ferrets' in Montana and South Dakota.
Bourne 'ferrets' ceaselessly away through all this, uncloseting all sorts of complex CIA skeletons that would - and did - take a thick Robert Ludlum novel to detail.
Other species of animals used include hamsters, gerbils, 'ferrets' , horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, reptiles, and amphibians.
Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and 'ferrets' , moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
The survey also featured 2,273 rabbits, 1,757 hamsters, 482 parrots and macaws, 233 'ferrets' , 81 donkeys and 47 newts and salamanders.
Black-footed 'ferrets' evolved with prairie dogs in this once-vast but now beleaguered landscape.
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