Fitch

Morpheme

Fitch

Type

free base

Denotation

polecat, polecat skin or fur, open weave resembling polecat fur

Etymology

clip of fitchew; Middle English fitchewes, variant of fichouse, ficheux; Old French fissiauls, fichau, fissel; Middle Dutch vitsche, visse, fisse; Latin vissīre

Evidence

fitch, fitched, fitches, fitching

Homographs

Fitch