cat-o'-mountain
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noun
another name for catamount
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Words nearby cat-o'-mountain
catnip, Cato, Catoctin Mountain Park, Catoctin Mountains, catolyte, cat-o'-mountain, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, cat-o'-nine-tails, Catonsville, catoptric, catoptrics
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How to use cat-o'-mountain in a sentence
A popular term for a wild cat was cat-o-mountain, an expression borrowed from the Spaniards, who call the wild cat gato-montes.
Folk-lore of Shakespeare|Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer