(n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eagle picked him up when he started to claim that a former Labour MP who supports the health reforms, Dr Howard Stoate, had been defeated at the election by the Tories.
(2) Dr Howard Stoate General practitioner; former clinical commissioning group chair; former MP • Any chance the CQC could find the present government “inadequate” and place it in special measures, please ( Prestigious hospital in special measures over staff shortage , 22 September)?
(3) Their job involves eradicating animals that might want to eat these small game birds: foxes, stoats, weasels and, in the days when it was legal to do so, birds of prey.
(4) Dominance relationships between different categories of stoats (femalefemale, adult and juvenile male male) were examined, as was social dominance between individual stoats of the same sex.
(5) With senior Labour figures claiming the prime minister lost his cool because he has lost "the argument over the NHS", the intervention by Stoate– the only practising GP to serve in parliament when he stood down at the general election – robs Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, of a line of attack: that the government reforms have high-profile defenders in the medical profession.
(6) There are 370 plant species recorded there and you might spot stoats, yellow necked mice, dormice and badgers too.
(7) Mawle employed three keepers whose work included controlling predators (foxes, stoats, crows) by legal means to ensure a healthy wild grouse population.
(8) Infection was also not found in 40 stone martens, 5 badgers and 3 stoats.
(9) The prime minister regularly plays fast and loose with the facts at prime minister's questions and he got it wrong again yesterday when he claimed that ex Labour MP Howard Stoate had lost his Dartford seat at the general election.
(10) Stoate, the former MP for Dartford, writes in the Guardian that doctors do not "glibly accept every aspect of the health bill; it clearly has many inherent problems".
(11) Although the stoats and squirrels in question had died of natural causes, the charity Advocates for Animals denounced “perverse” and “out-of-date shock tactics” that “exploited and degraded animals”.
(12) And shrinking rivers and lower water levels in ditches and streams expose the burrows of riverbank mammals, such as water voles, leaving these animals vulnerable to predators, such as stoats and weasels.
(13) It sold in a limited run of 11 bottles, each artfully stuffed inside a deceased wild animal – seven stoats, four grey squirrels – costing between £500 and £700.
(14) – 'reveal overwhelming enthusiasm'," he said, quoting Dr Stoate.
(15) Eagle shouted that Stoate had stood down before the election and the PM had got his facts wrong.
(16) The original used the spellings Howard Stoat and David Willets.
(17) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
(18) The flea species did not reflect the status of their usual hosts in the diet of stoats, but did reflect the stoats' use of their usual hosts' habitat.
(19) As you report, "Eagle picked him up when he started to claim that a former Labour MP who supports the health reforms, Dr Howard Stoate, had been defeated at the election by the Tories."
(20) Howard Stoate, the former Labour MP who left parliament to focus on his work as a GP, has attacked David Cameron for quoting him "out of context" on the government's health bill.
Toat
Definition:
(n.) The handle of a joiner's plane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pollard provoked the ejection of 3% and the ejection time shortened from 2.29 toats (20%) can at least partially be ascribed to milk release during food intake.
(2) A modification of Toates's (1981) incentive model of ingestive behavior was suggested to incorporate relativity effects based on both associative and nonassociative factors in the consumption of both nutritive and nonnutritive substances.