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Definition of Foumarts
1. foumart [n] - See also: foumart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foumarts
Literary usage of Foumarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"The wild animals are the same as are common to all the Low Country: hares, rabbits,
foxes, badgers, otters, foumarts, or polecats, and stoats, or ermines. ..."
2. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1899)
"I foumarts were also hunted with terriers and a hound or two, and one was thus
killed within a comparatively recent date in the vicinity of my own home. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"The wild animals here are the same as in the neighbouring parishes, hares, rabbits,
foxes, badgers, otters, foumarts, or polecats. ..."
4. Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent by W. Thompson (1892)
"In 1824 great slaughter was committed among the foumarts, twenty-two seniors and
five juniors being duly presented and paid for. ..."
5. The Bookman (1898)
"They stayed stubbornly, but we had weight against them and the advantage of the
little brae, and by-and by we pinned them, like foumarts, against the stones ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... as clearly as fifty foumarts, and back came the same reckless neer-dc-gude to
night— i' the very midst o' the thunder and X ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"Polecats and foumarts, too, leave their usual haunts for a time, and take up a
temporary abode on the moors during the time that grouse are hatching. ..."
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