ferret

ferret is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
2. noun. To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
3. noun. A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
4. noun. The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
5. noun. domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
6. noun. musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
7. verb. search and discover through persistent investigation

   "She ferreted out the truth"

8. verb. hunt with ferrets
9. verb. hound or harry relentlessly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ferret:

ferter

Common word forms

ferrets, ferreted, ferreter, ferreting

Words from these letters

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