fewte

noun

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

   archaic

   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.

Where it comes from

From Middle English feute, itself from Old French fuite (“the fleeing, flight”), as of what is left and seen from fleeing game.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry fewte (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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