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Definition of Fewmet
1. n. See Fumet.
Definition of Fewmet
1. Noun. the droppings of an animal, by which the hunter identifies it ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fewmet
1. the dung of a deer [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fewmet
Literary usage of Fewmet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turbervile's Booke of Hunting, 1576 by George Turberville (1908)
"... or haue bene hurte, then they make theyr fewmet oftentimes drie, ... that there
is difference betweene the fewmet of the morning and that of the ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"fewmet. See FUMET. FEY, or FAT, L e. Faith.— Chaucer. FEY,' t>. L e. Fag, (qv.)
g softened into y. To/*» a ditch, is to work hard at it, and thus, ..."
3. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"... his excrement the fewmet ; his horns are called his head ; when simple, the
first year, they are called broches ; the third year, spears ; the fourth ..."
4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... clew, clue, fewmet, fumet; fewel, fuel &c. and rests particularly upon: The
Anglosaxon eov, iv; ..."
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