How To Use Polecat In A Sentence
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But I am aware that there are certain individuals in the community who are endeavoring to excite alarm among you, and 'bugology you', and frighten you from voting for the school system, by telling you if you do, you will smell a polecat -- that it is intended to tax the poor for the benefit of the rich -- that you will be taxed higher than all creation can pay, and finally in a few years, you will be "distinguished" like Jackson 'distinguished' the national debt.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
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Yes, the solitary, crepuscular mammal known to Native Americans as the pekan, pequam or wejack, which closely resembles a European polecat.
A Night of Furversion
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ENERGY DYNAMICS OF THE POPULATION OF POLECAT IN THE ALPINE MEADOW ECOSYSTEM.
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I can confirm from personal knowledge and with full evidence to support the charge -- he is a scoundrel, a blaggard and a proven liar with all the ethics of a semi-house-trained polecat.
Martin Lewis: Murdoch Scandal: New Arrest Heralds US Peril for Murdoch
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Among other rare and endangered mammal species protected in this ecoregion are: marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna koshevnikovi), otter (Lutra lutra seistanica), manul cat (F. manul ferrugineus), and a number of species of bats and rodents.
Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
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The polecat came big and strong, the size of a monster, disguised by the night so no one knew who he was.
GYPSY MASALA
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And then by the time they get their first crack at deducing who the polecat is, they will be in custody.
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To minimize the risk of predation, which was mainly by stoats, Mustela erminea, and polecats, Mustela putorius, nest visits were kept to a minimum.
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The great peculiarity in one of these birds was that he, as the seasons succeeded each other, was not always a hen-cock, and not always of the colour called the polecat, which is black.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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A member of the mustelid family, which includes the stoat and badger, the polecat is the size of a ferret.
Times, Sunday Times
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My grandfather used to put me to sleep with stories of the polecat who came at night to take away the chickens when they were asleep.
GYPSY MASALA
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On one hunting expedition I caught an animal known as a polecat, and that betrayed me, because its scent got on the dogs.
The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson. Born the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1819, and Joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839. This Book Shall Be Called the Young Men's Guide, Or, The Brother in White.
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He said the smell was caused by polecats, which have a natural pungent odour, and the dead bird had stunned itself the previous day when it escaped and flew into a window.
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Other threatened mammals include pond bat (Myotis dasycneme), barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus), wolf (Canis lupus), steppe polecat (Mustela eversmannii), and spotted souslik (Spermophilus suslicus).
Central European mixed forests
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The zorrilla Ictonyx striatus, or Striped Polecat, is considered the smelliest animal on earth.
The Smelliest Animal Ever?
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At heart, though, the ferret is a denizen of the countryside, a weasel closely related to the European polecat and the mink.
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Leopard (Panthera pardus) and wolf (Canis lupis) are sighted occasionally within protected areas, as are golden jackal (Canis aureus), marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna) and the cats Felis catus, F. margarita, and F. manul may.
Central Persian desert basins
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But, Wednesday night gave me a polecat philharmonic.
The Mondays: Sometimes the Muse Is In the Bushes
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Martin, from Wilmslow, is particularly fond of the polecat - the mammal from which ferrets evolved - and over two years he has rescued 10 injured polecats and then sent them back into their habitat to breed.
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I adored my quota of kittens, puppies, guinea pigs, hamsters and polecats, but infant pigs have extra loveability.
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My bipod is a rubber legged polecat, and is terrible in the sun.
Field & Stream
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At heart, though, the ferret is a denizen of the countryside, a weasel closely related to the European polecat and the mink.
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At heart, though, the ferret is a denizen of the countryside, a weasel closely related to the European polecat and the mink.
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The name probably relates to a poor translation of the name for the European polecat, which is a relative of the fisher and is called the fitch ferret, fichet or fitche.
YubaNet.com
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The critter's black-and-white fur has led to some biologists to suggest it deters predators by resembling the smelly, skunk-like striped polecat, or zorilla, but it is "probably too poor a copy," says the study, to truly fool them.
USATODAY.com News
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Polecat, musang (Viverra fossa, or a new species).
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Domestic ferrets are generally believed to be descended from the European polecat; and they were originally used as hunting animals to catch rabbits and rodents.
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Its rind was said to exude a stench of so atrocious a nature that when a dorian was in the room even the presence of a polecat was a refreshment.
Following the Equator
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The hamsters are very fierce little creatures: constantly fighting with other quadrupeds, and even among themselves; but the polecat is their master and tyrant, and carries on a war of extermination against them -- following them through the intricate ways of their burrows, and destroying them even in their dens!
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
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And I especially like how "polecat" is just another word for "skunk.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The name probably relates to a poor translation of the name for the European polecat, which is a relative of the fisher and is called the fitch ferret, fichet or fitche.
YubaNet.com
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But, for reals, a polecat is a type of weasel or skunk.
Blogger News Network
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Experimental hybridization has established that polecats, ferrets, Steppe polecats, and European mink are able to produce fertile hybrids.
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Adult and juvenile gerbils of both sexes give alarm calls and footdrum in the presence of an assortment of terrestrial predators: snakes, monitor lizards, foxes, polecats, weasels, humans and large ungulates.
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Domestic ferrets are generally believed to be descended from the European polecat; and they were originally used as hunting animals to catch rabbits and rodents.
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He possessed all his teeth but one, and most of his hair as well, though his side-whiskers had lately broken out in polecat streaks of gray.
Excerpt: The Gates of The Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
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At the small animal shed, which is home to lambs, goats, rabbits, chinchillas, as well as chipmunks, rats, mice and polecats, youngsters are encouraged to stroke and pet the animals.
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They are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of polecats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn-out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes.
Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke : sons of a soldier of the Revolution, during a captivity of more than twenty years among the slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America, by dictated
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A polecat, by the way, is not a cat at all-in the United States, the term designates a skunk.
Undefined
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The polecat is just as much a sneak and a thief as it's domesticated cousin and the name reflects that.
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He prefers the fitchew ferret as he calls it; that is the sort that are coloured like a polecat.
The Amateur Poacher
