ferret
ഒരിനം
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.
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she had the ability to 'ferret' out the facts
The wild black-footed 'ferret' , indigenous to North America, is an endangered species.
The black-footed 'ferret' has come a long way since the late 1970s, when many people feared that it was extinct.
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.
she had the ability to 'ferret' out the facts
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.
The predators included 13 raptors, ranging from great-horned owls to the American kestrel, and a domestic cat and a 'ferret' .
Directors always see something in you that you have to kind of 'ferret' out, in a way.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the black-footed 'ferret' as an endangered species.
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.
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.
You could have possums, chamois, 'ferrets' , stoats, flopsy bunnykins and even the common cat.
The survey also featured 2,273 rabbits, 1,757 hamsters, 482 parrots and macaws, 233 'ferrets' , 81 donkeys and 47 newts and salamanders.
He probably meant to sound authoritative, but only succeeded in sounding 'ferrety' .
As if any time spent by reporters 'ferreting' out the truth - and by Congress overseeing - would otherwise be spent tossing sandbags on the levee, disinfecting the Superdome, or driving evacuees to Houston.
I looked down at the little ashtray on his gold coloured hostess trolley, two lonely pound coins looked back up at me, so i 'ferreted' around in my pocket for something smaller.
There's the Smoking Gun, which 'ferrets' around to find court documents and police mugshots relating to major, usually celebrity-related cases.
Yet nothing will deter my teams of trained stoats, 'ferrets' and weasels from carrying out my orders and enabling me to achieve ultimate power.
Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and 'ferrets' have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders.
When the food supplies dwindled, they 'ferreted' around for root vegetables, insects and anything else that can be eaten.
Any 'ferreter' will tell you about the rabbits that have slipped through nets or used undiscovered bolt holes.
As mustelids - stoats, 'ferrets' and weasels - were highly mobile and curious, it would be expected that if there were stoats on the island they would have encountered one of the tunnels or traps in their travels.
The weaselish 'ferrety' damage coincides all too well with Sporkenbobble's plans.
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.
While domestic ferrets are common pets, black-footed 'ferrets' , are one of North America's most endangered mammals.
But one night, a woolly-hatted youth 'ferreted' around in the skip and extracted the ancient rucksack.
So the issues don't get driven by the elected officials inside the institution, and I think that's one of the reasons that the press doesn't necessarily 'ferret them out' .
Black-footed 'ferrets' evolved with prairie dogs in this once-vast but now beleaguered landscape.
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