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Definition of Catamounts
1. catamount [n] - See also: catamount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catamounts
Literary usage of Catamounts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Early Connecticut Engraver and His Work by Albert Carlos Bates (1906)
"The horses, dogs, unicorn, and catamounts all have peculiar round, barrel shaped
bodies. The twigs or vines with their leaves and small flowers found on a ..."
2. History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley by Sylvester Judd, Lucius Manlius Boltwood, George Sheldon (1905)
"... —Bears—catamounts, Crows and Blackbirds—Woodchucks—Furred Animals and the Fur
Trade—Beavers—Raccoons— Muskrats—Deer and Deer Hunting—Venison—Deerskin ..."
3. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"I have heard of two catamounts being killed, ... skill to kill one of these
monsters; but mind you, Teunis, that there are worse creatures than catamounts. ..."
4. My Host the Enemy and Other Tales: Sketches of Life and Adventure on the by Frank Welles Calkins (1901)
"When the sturgeon's bones were picked, the catamounts slunk away satisfied ...
While cooking the fish she again saw the evil-eyed catamounts moving among ..."
5. Oliver Optic's Magazine by Oliver Optic (1875)
"It is impossible to do justice to the martial air with which the " Screeching
catamounts " (as the small fry, less modest than the larger boys, ..."
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