Plural form of fitchew; multiple polecats or related animals.
The plural of the variant fitchew, formed with the standard '-s' ending, following English pluralization rules.
The existence of fitchet, fitchew, fitchets, and fitchews shows that medieval English was more like a wild frontier where spelling hadn't yet settled into standard rules.
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