Bible Dictionaries
Polecat

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.

(2):

(n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Polecat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/polecat.html. 1828.