Definition of Ferreting

1. Verb. (present participle of ferret) ¹

2. Noun. Hunting with ferrets. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ferreting

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferreting

ferredoxins
ferrel
ferreled
ferreling
ferrelled
ferrelling
ferrels
ferreous
ferret
ferret-eye
ferret badger
ferret out
ferreted
ferreter
ferreters
ferreting (current term)
ferretings
ferretlike
ferrets
ferretto
ferrety
ferri-
ferriable
ferriage
ferriages
ferrian
ferric
ferric acid
ferric alum
ferric ammonium citrate

Literary usage of Ferreting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1902)
"ferreting ' speaks for itself. It is the first field-sport to which, as a rule, boys are entered, and few men who shoot will fail to recall the delights of ..."

2. Shooting Adventures, Canine Lore and Sea-fishing Trips by Lewis Clements, Wildfowler (1879)
"ferreting BANKS IN ESSEX. A FRIEND of mine wrote me before last Christmas that he intended going on a ferreting expedition over a farm in Essex, ..."

3. Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres: Or, Reminiscences of the Life of a Former by Vincent Nolte (1854)
"... and the consequent impossibility of ferreting out the true state of affairs—The sudden crippling of the machinery and uprooting of the foundation of the ..."

4. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by George Walter Thornbury, Walter Thornbury (1856)
"ferreting. —Usurers. — Falconers and Poor Scholars. — Jacks of the Clock House. — The Visitor. — The Shifter. — The Rank Riders. ..."

5. Recreations in Shooting: With Some Account of the Game of the British Islands by John William Carleton (1846)
"Shooting, in places where rabbits live, for the most part, under ground, is the slowest of slow sport: ferreting to nets ia butchery, as relates to the ..."

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