[f. FERRET sb.2 -ING1.] = FERRET sb.2
1670. Overseer’s Accounts, Holy Cross, Canterb., For a paire of Stockings a paire of Shooestrings, Tape and Fereting for Bullocks girle.
a. 1754. S. Gale, in Bibl. Topog. Brit., III. 21. Fine canvas waistcoats of a sandy colour, edged and trimmed with black ribbands or ferreting, and tied down before with strings of the same colour.
1845. Mrs. S. C. Hall, Whiteboy, iv. 27. A wide-leafed straw hat, with a piece of black coarse ferretting dangling from it.
