foumarts

They stayed stubbornly, but we had weight against them and the advantage of the little brae, and by-and-by we pinned them, like foumarts, against the stones.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Stoats, foumarts, polecats, _et id genus omne_, are becoming scarcer every year; although the writer was recently told of a marten-cat — probably the Pine-marten

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

After surveying his ancestors 'portraits we adjourned to the hall, which was furnished with battle-axes, Jethart spears, basket-hilted swords, maces, salmon leisters, masks of otters and foumarts, foxes and badgers, and all the various trophies of Border sport and warfare of old time.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

Hudson [Footnote: The real name of this veteran sportsman is now restored.] the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi 'the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e'en!

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

Hudson [Footnote: The real name of this veteran sportsman is now restored.] the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi 'the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e'en!

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Lord, man, he sent Tam Hudson [Footnote: The real name of this veteran sportsman is now restored.] the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi 'the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e'en!

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Troth has he," answered Cuddie; "and his een were open and his brow bent, and his teeth clenched thegither, like the jaws of a trap for foumarts when the spring's doun -- I was amaist feared to look at him; however, I thought to hae turn about wi 'him, and sae I e'en riped his pouches, as he had dune mony an honester man's; and here's your ain siller again (or your uncle's, which is the same) that he got at Milnwood that unlucky night that made us a' sodgers thegither."

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Troth has he," answered Cuddie; "and his een were open and his brow bent, and his teeth clenched thegither, like the jaws of a trap for foumarts when the spring's doun -- I was amaist feared to look at him; however, I thought to hae turn about wi 'him, and sae I e'en riped his pouches, as he had dune mony an honester man's; and here's your ain siller again (or your uncle's, which is the same) that he got at Milnwood that unlucky night that made us a' sodgers thegither."

Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

Let me tell you that in the house of Heathknowes we harbour neither burrowing rats nor creepin 'foumarts, nor any manner of unclean beasts -- and as for a lawvier, if lawvier ye be, ye are the first o' your breed to enter here, and if my sons hear ye talkin 'o' harbourin '-- certes, ye stand a chance to gang oot the door wi' your feet foremost! "

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

Hudson11 the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi’ the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e’en!

Guy Mannering 1815