Definition of "foumart" []

• A polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family. (noun)

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• "The foumart is the special abhorrence of the game-keeper; it does more damage amongst game and poultry than any of the other _Mustelidae_, and consequently greater pains are taken to trap and shoot it, in fact, so much so that I wonder that the animal is not now extinct in the British Isles."
• "In my county, as well as in many parts of England, the popular name is "foumart," which is said to be derived from "foul marten.""
• "To those corries of my native place will be coming in the yellow moon of brock and foumart -- the beasts that dote on the autumn eves -- the People of Quietness; have I not seen their lanthoms and heard their laughter in the night?"