ferret

mustajalkahilleri

metsästää fretillä

nuuskia

kiusata

fretti An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
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A diligent searcher.
1998 July 2, w:Charles Nicholl|Charles Nicholl, "Screaming in the Castle" in the London Review of Books, Vol. XX, No. 13:

The most challenging documentary discoveries were made by a tenacious archival ferret, Dr Antonio Bertoletti. In 1879 he published his findings in a slim, refreshingly dry volume, w:Beatrice Cenci|Francesco Cenci e la sua Famiglia.

Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.

I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.

She ferreted in her bag; then held it up mouth downwards; then fumbled in her lap, all so vigorously that Charles Steele in the Panama hat suspended his paint-brush.

red tape and green ferret