English Dictionary

polecat

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpəʊlkæt/

名詞

アパラチア アメリカ英語 方言 前置詞

A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela. / notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius. / (US, dialects, including Appalachia) A skunk.

日本語の意味

イタチに似た動物。特にヨーロッパに生息するムステラ・プトリウス（欧州ハクビシン）を指します。 / 米国の方言（アパラチア地方など）では、スカンクを意味する場合もあります。

At dawn, a polecat slipped between the stone walls of the garden, hunting for mice.

夜明けに、イタチが庭の石垣の間をすり抜けてネズミを狩っていました。

意味（1）

A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.

意味（2）

notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.

For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.

意味（3）

(US, dialects, including Appalachia) A skunk.

意味（4）

(television) A tubular device used to support lights on a set.

This is adjustable telescopic tubing, wedged securely between floor and ceiling (vertical pole) or wall-to-wall (horizontal pole), within corridors, arches, window openings, doorways, etc. It may be held in position by a strong internal spring or end-screws. Designs include polecat, varipole, barricuda, jack tube, Acrow.

polecats （ plural ）