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fitch

The English word “fitch” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
  2. A skin of a polecat.
  3. A kind of twisted open weave in wickerwork.

verb

  1. To use this kind of open weave.

Etymology

Shortening of fitchew, or directly borrowed from its antecedent, Middle Dutch vitsche (“polecat”). More at fitchew.

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