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• n. Dial. a North American wildcat, Lynx canadensis, having prominently tufted ears, large cushioned paws, and a black tail-tip.

  See also: Canada lynx  lynx  

  • A common form among trappers in the Northwest, a back-formation from lynx to form an unhistorical singular.

  • 1896  (1898)  . . . in the Great Slave Lake region . . . the "pishew" or "link" was by no means common.
  • 1920  "How many link skins in the bale you made up, to-day?" asked Peter Minot.
  • 1966  ". . . let's go into the link money." In the long previous winter Rappaport had trailed and treed four lynx which Smith had shot, skinned and sold.