Usage examples (8)

• 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."
• As they threaded the thicket of hazel, at some distance from the pool, one of the salmon-fishers declared, that from a plot of white-thorn and bramble-bushes he had seen the...
• A foumart was caught in the back kitchen; you may perhaps know it better by the name of polecat.
• Measter, too -- I could a-bear a good deal, but measter cuts through the stable-yard, and past me, wi'out a word, as if I was poison, or a stinking foumart.