Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
wolfer .
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Examples
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A cottonwood stump not far from where it plunged to the gravelly stream was marked with Wolf signs that told the wolver of its use.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Many a wolver has dug into a wolf-den to find nothing.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Grrr-wow-wow-wa-a-a-a-h, and stood still; then ran a little nearer and did it again, and then again much nearer, and repeated her bark, she was so determined that the wolver should follow her.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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How the wolver raved to see the pack lead off in the climax of the chase, and himself held up behind.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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But again into the open they came, and the wolver, labouring far behind, got sight of them and fired again and again with his revolver, and only stirred the dust, but still it made her dodge and lose time, and it also spurred the Dog.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Every wolver knows, of course, that his business naturally drops into several well-marked periods.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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The wolver watered and repicketed his Horse, kindled the fire anew, made his coffee and ate his evening meal, then smoked awhile before lying down to sleep, thinking occasionally of the little woolly scalps he expected to gather in the morning.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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A month or so later the survivors have learned how to take care of themselves, but in the early summer the wolver knows that there are dens full of little ones all through the hills.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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He was now installed as wolver to the Broadarrow outfit.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Of course the wolver could see nothing of the Coyote, for the shades were falling.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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