stoat

[ stoht ]

noun
  1. the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.

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Origin of stoat

1
1425–75; late Middle English stote< ?

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How to use stoat in a sentence

  • He was never seen again, and neither was his sister who fed far out in the field one evening and was marked down by a stoat.

    Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland

British Dictionary definitions for stoat

stoat

/ (stəʊt) /


noun
  1. a small Eurasian musteline mammal, Mustela erminea, closely related to the weasels, having a brown coat and a black-tipped tail: in the northern parts of its range it has a white winter coat and is then known as an ermine

Origin of stoat

1
C15: of unknown origin

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