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fox n Cent fox-trap (1890) for cpd.
1 Red fox
(Vulpes fulvus). See CROSS n: CROSS-FOX, PATCH (FOX).
2
Attrib, comb, cpd fox-board: wooden board on which a fox-pelt is stretched to dry;
FUR n:
FUR-BOARD.
[1776] 1792 CARTWRIGHT
ii, 133 Two hands sawing a stock for foxboards, and two others were at work on the ice
about the shalloway. The eastern furriers went round their walk.
fox dog: local variety of mongrel dog.
[1823] 1977 Evening Telegram 30 May, p. 6 It was hauled on
sledges by a small breed of dogs which appeared to be a cross between the collie and the
fox, called the 'fox dog.'
fox-eye: a circle around the
moon, indicative of bad weather.
Q 71-11 ~ a sign of weather. If
it's a big ring round the moon then the weather is far away and if it's a small ring then
the weather is handy.
fox-flower: thrift (Armeria
labradorica) (1956 ROULEAU 30).
fox-hook: a device to
capture a fox.
[1775] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 121 I set a fox-hook,
baited with a small bird.
fox-trap: a device to snare
foxes.
[1785] 1792 CARTWRIGHT iii, 56 At four this morning I went
on shore [at Fogo] and bought seventeen foxtraps of captain Cheater. 1792 PULLING
MS Aug William Elliott who resides at Ragged Harbor was going along near the
seaside with another man and a boy to set some fox traps and coming to a pond fired at
some ducks. 1836 [WIX]1 124-5 ... the distribution of a south-wester, a
fox-trap, or a pair of mokasins, was not a ... matter for Divine interference. 1914
WALLACE 182 Fox traps were set upon the marshes, and baited with rabbits which had been
hung in the tilt until they began to smell badly, or with other scraps of flesh. The trap
securely fastened by its chain to a block of wood or the base of willow brush, was
carefully concealed under a thin crust of snow. P 9-73 In winter fox traps are set on
humps on open ground so that the wind blows the snow away. 1977 Them Days ii (3),
6 That was in the spring when we was out to the islands checkin' our fox traps.
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