foumart

Then Evening goes to the hedgehog, to the fox, to the foumart, the whitterit, the bat, and the vole.

Skins of whitterit or weasel, of foumart or pole-cat, of the wild cat itself, of great unsightly rats, of moles and of voles, and hawks and owls galore.

A foumart was caught in the back kitchen; you may perhaps know it better by the name of polecat.

They stayed stubbornly, but we had weight against them and the advantage of the little brae, and by-and-by we pinned them, like foumarts, against the stones.

In my county, as well as in many parts of England, the popular name is "foumart," which is said to be derived from "foul marten."