"weazel" meaning in All languages combined

See weazel on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: weazels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} weazel (plural weazels)
  1. Archaic form of weasel. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: weasel
    Sense id: en-weazel-en-noun-1mDCQjxM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1840, Frances Trollope, chapter III, in The Vicar of Wrexhill, London: Richard Bentley, pages 304–5:",
          "text": "[…] set fire to the library, and stifle him in it like a weazel as he is […]",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1888, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Old Dominie”, in Auld Licht Idylls, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 138:",
          "text": "[H]e disappeared into his house much as a startled weazel makes for its hole.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:",
          "text": "Now the first time that his small weazel-eyes happened to light on Billy Budd, a certain grim internal merriment set all his ancient wrinkles into antic play.",
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