fewte

fewte

English

Noun

fewte

1. (archaic) Signs left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent.
   • late 1930s, JRR Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur:

     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.

   • 1968, Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum:

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

   • 2003, John Cummins, The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk, →ISBN, page 144:

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

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Middle English

Noun

fewte

1. Alternative form of feaute
   • 1338, Robert Manning of Brunne, The Story of England:

     Arthur þem þanked þat þey so ches; Louely tok he per alle here fewte, ffor þey come alle so wyþ wylle fre.

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   • 1464, Cronycullys of Englonde (A Short English Chronicle):

     And after that he conquered all Scotlond, and made the Kynge of Scottes his liege man, to do him fewte and homage as he ought of right.