stoat

IPA: stˈoʊt

Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.

Examples of "stoat" in Sentences

The ermine, or stoat, is a bloodthirsty little villain.
The clatter of a pheasant call from the field beyond sends the stoat into hiding.
The stoat scampers along the dry-stone wall, lightly cresting the lichen-covered coping stones.
Both she and the stoat, with its white winter coat, are looking in the same direction, at something to the viewer's right.
* An animal called the stoat, a kind of ermine, is said to be found in North America, but very inferior to the European and Asiatic.
The little English stoat, which is destroyed by the gamekeepers, becomes the beautiful snow-white ermine in Russia and other cold countries. "
The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch.
A couple of weeks ago I watched an adult stoat carry a vole in its jaws back to the gap in the wall beneath the sycamore tree where I reckon its nest to be.
She was brought up in the country, rides well (side-saddle), plays a goodish game of tennis, but does not know a stoat from a weasel or notice the direction of the wind.