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▪ I. stoat, n.|stəʊt|
Forms: 5 s[t]ot, 5–6 stoote, 5–9 stote, 9 stoot, 7– stoat.
[Of obscure origin: there appears to be no ground for assuming connexion with stot.]
a. The European ermine, Putorius ermineus or Mustela erminea, esp. when in its brown summer coat.
c1460Porkington MS. 10 lf. 189 Þis byne þe bestes of þe stynkyng fute. The folmard..þe ottur þe stote and þe pol⁓catte. 1486Bk. St. Albans f iv b, The Squyrell, the Whitrat, the S[t] ot, and the Pulcatte. 1552Huloet, Stoote, beast or vermyne whyche kylleth rabettes, ferunculus. 1570Levins Manip. 178/7 A stote, vermine, furunculus. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 219 It is said..that if the head of a wolfe be hanged vp in a doue-cote, neither cat, Ferret, weasil, Stoate, or other noysome beast dare to enter therein. 1619Middleton Tri. Love & Antiq. D 1, The names of those Beasts, bearing Furr,..Ermine, Foyne, Sables,..Minck, Stote, Miniuer, [etc.]. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 417 When they are penned up they are more secure from the stote. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. I. 84 The weesel being usually mistaken for a small stoat. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Stoot, a species of pole-cat or weazle. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 871 Lion and stoat have isled together, knave, In time of flood. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 64 The stoat or, as it is generally called when in winter dress, the ermine (Mustela erminea), is closely allied to the weasel. 1897‘Ouida’ Massarenes xxxix, You are as keen after gold as a stoat after poultry.
(b) fig., esp. a treacherous fellow; a sexually aggressive man, a lecher.
1854Wiseman Fabiola ii. vi. 173 You came here as a famous plot-hunter, a sort of stoat, to pull conspirators out of their nests. a1960E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) xxx. 138 His feeling for Dickie required a very primitive name... What a stoat he had been! 1978C. Egleton Mills Bomb xxii. 208 ‘Would it surprise you to learn that he was a fag?’ ‘You've got it wrong; everyone knew he was a stoat.’
b. Comb., as stoat-hunting; stoat-weasel, a stoat.
1836Mrs. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. iii, To remember it was Sunday, and no day for stoat hunting. 1882J. Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. iii. 427 Stoat-weasels..still hold their ground.
▪ II. stoat, v. Tailoring.|stəʊt|
[Of obscure origin.]
trans. To sew with a particular kind of invisible stitch, which passes only half-way through the cloth. Hence ˈstoated, ˈstoating ppl. adjs.; ˈstoating vbl. n.
18881st Rep. Sel. Comm. Sweating Syst. 1029 Tailors' Log. Stoated and double pricked edges 3s 0d. 1888Daily News 21 Sept. 4/7 Enduring fierce rebuke from ‘the boss’ for a shoulder awkwardly wadded, or a badly ‘stoated’ edge. 1901Hasluck Tailoring 21 There are three kinds of absolutely invisible stitches which are used to repair tears... These are stoating, fine-drawing, and rentering. Ibid., The tear to be stoated must have firm edges; it is impossible to stoat ravelled edges such as most serges have.
▪ III. stoat
dial. form of stout n., horse-fly. |