ferreting in English
verb
1
(of a person) hunt with ferrets, typically for rabbits.
Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
verb
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "ferreting" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "ferreting", or refer to the context using the word "ferreting" in the English Dictionary.
1. 21 I spent the day ferreting in the attic .
2. I was just ferreting around in my drawer for my passport.
3. So far as I am concerned, wet-weather ferreting isn't worth the effort.
4. 29 But how else were you to approach the massive problem of ferreting out some meaning from an inscrutable universe?