0 past simple and past participle of ferret
1 to search for something by moving things around with your hands, especially in a drawer, bag, or other closed space:
The existence of intermediates is sometimes apparent directly in the kinetics or can be ferreted out by using denaturants to tilt the landscape.
I make no claim to have ferreted out all of these clues.
No study has yet ferreted out data practices that industry declines to divulge.
I have ferreted in all parts, and am thoroughly acquainted with both rabbits and hares.
He has also ferreted out the tax dodgers, which everyone would surely cheer.
Surely it is not much to make a case of, that individual letters can be found, can be ferreted out three years afterwards.
Some of them have had to be ferreted out from perhaps 150 or 200 different company accounts.
Very often, the information that one needs has to be ferreted out.
