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whitret ‎(plural whitrets)

(Scotland, Britain dialect) A weasel or stoat.
- 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:
  We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 21:
  But even so he was gey slow to get on with the courting and just hung around Kirsty like a futret round a trap with a bit of meat in it, not sure if the meat was worth the risk […].