fewte
fewte noun: signs left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent, the track itself.
Noun
fewte
- Signs left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent, the track itself.
- As wary as wolves through the wood stalking / to the marches rode there Mordred's hunters, / huge and hungry hounds beside them / the fewte followed fiercely baying.late 1930s, JRR Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
- Madden likewise, in his Glossary to Gawayn, had explained “Wewter,” as denoting the huntsman who tracked the deer by the fewte or odour.1968, Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum
Origin of fewte
From Middle English feute, itself from Old French fuite (“the fleeing, flight”), as of what is left and seen from fleeing game.
Questions about fewte
- What does fewte mean?
- Fewte means signs left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent, the track itself.
- What part of speech is fewte?
- Fewte is a noun.
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