All 36 Uses of

badger
in
The Once and Future King

, BULLDOG written under it, and a very life-like basilisk with CROWHURST OTTER HOUNDS in Roman print There were several boars' tusks and the claws of tigers and libbards mounted in symmetrical patterns, and a big head of Ovis Pott, six live grass snakes in a kind of aquarium, some nests of the solitary wasp nicely set up in a glass cylinder, an ordinary beehive whose inhabitants went in and out of the window unmolested, two young hedgehogs in cotton wool, a pair of badgers which immediately began to cry Yik-Yik-Yik-Yik in loud voices as soon as the magician appeared, twenty boxes which contained stick caterpillars and sixths of the puss-moth, and even an oleander that was worth sixpence —all†
Book 1

badgers = mammals that dig tunnels with strong claws

He has got some badgers and hedgehogs and mice and ants and things on this white donkey here, because we could not leave them behind to starve.†
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The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulks of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves—all came to him more or less as something which you either skinned or flayed and then took home to cook.†
Book 1

Badgers are one of the few creatures which can munch up hedgehogs unconcernedly, just as they can munch up everything else from wasps' nests and roots to baby rabbits.†
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"Ah, them badgers," said the poor thing to its stomach, "they go a-barrowing about with no harm in their hearts, Lor bless 'em, but doan't they fair give you a nip without a-noticing of it, and Lor bless 'ee what is a retired mun to do?†
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Aye, 'tis a mollocky thing to deal with they badgers, that us may be sure.†
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All round the panelled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit from above by shaded glow-worms.†
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They rose over the church wall all together, like the Punch and Judy ghosts of remembered days, and there were badgers and nightingales and vulgar crows and hares and wild geese and falcons and fishes and dogs and dainty unicorns and solitary wasps and corkin-drills and hedgehogs and griffins and the thousand other animals he had met They loomed round the church wall, the lovers and helpers of the Wart, and they all spoke solemnly in turn.†
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The boys had a way of sliding down a rain-water pipe into the moat, which they could swim on secret occasions when it was necessary to be out at night—to wait for a badger, for instance, or to catch tench, which can only be taken just before dawn.†
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It was nothing like badger-digging or covert-shooting or fox-hunting today.†
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He proceeded with the spell, pointed his wand of lignum vitae at the Little Bear, which had just begun to glow in the dimity as it hung by its tail from the North Star, and called out cheerfully, "Have a good time for the last visit Give love to Badger."†
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"Badger lives in there," he said to himself, "and I am supposed to go and talk to him.†
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You just go off to sleep like you were when I met you, and I shall go to look for my friend badger, as I was told to do.†
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He watched the dirty little ball of leaves and grass and fleas for a moment, curled up tightly inside its hole, then grunted and moved off toward the badger's sett, following his own oblong footmarks backward in the snow.†
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He went ambling down the corridors of the enchanted sett, rolling from leg to leg with the queer badger paddle, his white mask with its black stripes looking ghostly in the gloom.†
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There were stately chairs with the badger arms stamped in gold on their Spanish leather seats—the leather was coming off—and a portrait of the Founder over the fireplace.†
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"I am a bachelor afthe moment," said the badger apologetically, when they got back to his own snug room with the flowered wallpaper, "so I am afraid there is only one chair.†
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They do have a sort of pathetic appeal," said the badger sadly, "but I'm afraid I generally just munch them up.†
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"I am writing a treatise just now," said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it, "which is to point out why Man has become the master of the animals.†
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"Perhaps I ought to explain," added the badger, lowering his papers nervously and looking at the Wart over the top of them, "that all embryos look very much the same.†
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Don't you have courage in warfare, Badger, and endurance, and comrades whom you love?†
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"What about those forearms," asked a Badger gravely, "that are held together by a chest?†
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Lancelot's hair, which had already turned badger-grey when he first came back from his madness as a fellow of twenty-six, was quite white.†
Book 3

Definitions:

(1) (badger as in: badgered her until she agreed)
to nag or bother someone repeatedly -- typically to repeatedly ask them to do something
(2) (badger as in: saw a badger)
a type of mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws and is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Wisconsin is called the Badger State and its residents may be referred to as Badgers.