cat squirrel

American  

noun

Chiefly South Atlantic States.

1. the gray squirrel, as distinguished from the fox squirrel.

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Example Sentences

Finally, beside the dog, cat, squirrel, and bear, we have offered to us, for the first time, oxen, deer, camel, and other specimens of the rumantia.

From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous

Dog, cat, squirrel and badger were all of them robbers, but David would have been quite wretched if he had caught them doing anything dishonest.

From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger

The Middle States furnishes a species called the cat squirrel, rather smaller than the preceding.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton

The hawk, heron, woodpecker, crow, beaver, otter, wild cat, squirrel, rattlesnake, and others, have all figured largely in the totemic divisions of our North American Indians.

From Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 by Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee)