ferret
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1. ferret - Noun
2. ferret - Verb
Meaning
An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
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There was a time I thought I was a ferret.
Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.
a small bewigged ferret.
Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
To go rabbit hunting with a dead ferret.