STOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stoat mean? 

• STOAT (noun)
  The noun STOAT has 1 sense:

1. the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail

  Familiarity information: STOAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("stoat" is a kind of...):

ermine; Mustela erminea; shorttail weasel (mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat)

 Context examples 

On the whole, it was probably some creature of the weasel and stoat tribe—and yet it is larger than any of these that I have seen.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now it was a lithe, furtive stoat which shot across the path upon some fell errand of its own; then it was a wild cat which squatted upon the outlying branch of an oak and peeped at the traveller with a yellow and dubious eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In an instant out there slipped a beautiful reddish-brown creature, thin and lithe, with the legs of a stoat, a long, thin nose, and a pair of the finest red eyes that ever I saw in an animal’s head.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)