DCHP-1 Online

mountain cat

• 1 East See 1947 quote.

  See also: catamount (def. 1)  

  • c1665  (1885)  He came with us to our Cottage, where we mett our companion after having killed one beare, 2 staggs, and 2 mountain catts.
  • 1861  This gives us more time for sport, for another cruize or two up the bay, to gather eggs or rinds, or to try and secure one of the large seals for boot-bottoms for the ensuing winter, and to shoot a mountain-cat or two.
  • 1947  The lynx or mountain cat . . . is found in the southern part of the peninsula in broken country.

• 2 n. West a large, wild cat, Felis concolor, once common but now confined to southwestern Canada.

  See also: cougar  

  • c1902  (1912)  Some soft oozy moss-padded lair . . . sets Ba'tiste's pulse hopping--jumping--marking time in thrills like the lithe bounds of a pouncing mountain-cat.
  • 1911  "I guess--that was a mountain-cat, back in the woods. . . ."