stoat
the ermine, Mustela erminea, especially when in brown summer pelage.
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How to use stoat in a sentence
It may be a visual pun on her surname, since the Greek for ermine or stoat is galay.
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Wood Magic | Richard Jefferies"No intrusion can be thought of for a moment," said the stoat.
Wood Magic | Richard JefferiesOn this occasion the enemy turned out to be a stoat, and Cuni fled quaking lest it should be on her trail.
Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. HavilandPresently she came upon a luckless rabbit which had been killed by a stoat an hour before.
Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland
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
/ (stəʊt) /
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
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