Fitch

Quick meaning: Fitch is a noun meaning A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.

Meaning

A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.

More Meanings

1. A skin of a polecat.
2. A kind of twisted open weave in wickerwork.
3. To use this kind of open weave.
4. (obsolete) Alternative form of vetch.

Example Sentences

Striped fitch has coarser hair and is not so valuable.

Putorius eversmanni michnoi Kastsch, Transbaikalian steppe fitch. No specimens were collected by the Expedition, but a single skull of an adult male was received from a Russian trapper who secured it during the past[…]

For those who cannot afford the luxury of real fur, the most picturesque and delightful substitute is offered in stoles and muffs made up of plush-pony skin trimmed with a piece of natural fitch set slant-ways across the front of the muff […]

Fitches or Vetches are of divers Sorts, of which before; but since our Author's Time, several new Grasses have been found out, which supply the same Defect. Those which are most in Request, at present are, Clove, Ray-grass, Nonesuch and St. Fein.

Word Forms

• fitches
• fitching
• fitched

Synonyms for fitch

Depending on context, synonyms include polecat, foulmart, foumart.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polecat, foumart, foulmart, federal, ferret, perwitsky.

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