Meaning of fewte | Babel Free

Definitions

Signs left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent, the track itself.

archaic

Examples

“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.”

“Madden likewise, in his Glossary to Gawayn, had explained “Wewter,” as denoting the huntsman who tracked the deer by the fewte or odour.”

“Some hounds fell on the fewte left by the fox, Using their craft to cross and cross again.”

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