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  • noun Plural form of stoat.

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Examples

  • Of course, it goes without saying that the stoats were the wrong colour, matt instead of gloss and – most significantly - metric instead of the Imperial He had specified.

    Uttabollux Creation Myth David Hadley 2009

  • Of course, it goes without saying that the stoats were the wrong colour, matt instead of gloss and – most significantly - metric instead of the Imperial He had specified.

    Archive 2009-04-01 David Hadley 2009

  • Despite my breaks about "stoats" and the like I have a lot in common with yerselves in Norfolk.

    Why are the Greens so political ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • The recovery project, run by a coalition of groups including the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and the RSPB, has been advising landowners on how to improve habitats for the birds and control predators - such as stoats, weasels and rats - since 1996.

    unknown title 2009

  • As they can't fly, they make easy meat for non-native predators such as stoats and weasels and only survive in the wild in a few offshore islands.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • In possibly my favorite part of the book, the animal friends surge forth to retake Toad Hall from the weasels, stoats, and ferrets.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • In possibly my favorite part of the book, the animal friends surge forth to retake Toad Hall from the weasels, stoats, and ferrets.

    Onion Sauce! Onion Sauce! 2009

  • The others stood fast for a bit, but when the weasels came rushing out upon them they thought they were betrayed; and the stoats grappled with the weasels, and the weasels fought to get away, and they wrestled and wriggled and punched each other, and rolled over and over, till most of 'em rolled into the river!

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • We were originally going to use stoats and weasels, but they turned out to be already engaged in Operation Toad Hall.

    “Response Times” Are Back SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • The daily sightings of this family of stoats are giving me great pleasure.

    Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011

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