cat o' mountain

A form of catamountain — A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).

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Meanings

nouncat o' mountain (plural cat o' mountains)

plural cat o' mountains

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of catamountain.

    Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts / With dry Convultions, ſhorten vp their ſinewes / With aged Cramps, & more pinch-ſpotted make them, / Than Pard, or Cat o' Mountaine.

    1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1
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